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South Africa
In South Africa spring is newly sprung, and that energy has been channeled into a comprehensive civil society monitoring plan for the South African Open Government Partnership Commitments. South Afric..
September 5, 2012
2012
Ukraine
The OGP publishes a monthly newsletter. Want to receive it? Please email info [at] opengovpartnership.org with 'subscribe to OGP newsletter' in the header. This month's edition can be found below in E..
August 31, 2012
2012
MULTIPLE MEMBERS
This post was co-written with Gilbert Sendugwa, Coordinator and Head of Secretariat for the Africa Freedom of Information Centre, and was originally published on the World Resources Institute's webs..
August 24, 2012
2012
United Kingdom
Last month’s post on how open data is a major factor of economic growth was an important analysis of the wider debate on the impact open data has on governance. Worldwide, businesses and public bodies..
August 24, 2012
2012
MULTIPLE MEMBERS
The OGP has quickly become the leading global movement for promoting government openness. So it might seem odd to ask whether something as central to openness as the right to information (RTI or freed..
August 14, 2012
2012
United States (Withdrawn)
TreeMendelBlog.png President Obama launched his term with grand hopes and big initiatives. Of the many promises that he campaigned on, one of them was, of course, th..
August 7, 2012
2012
Croatia
Since Croatia applied to join the OGP in 2011 when the then government was more focused on parliamentary elections than on plans for the future, OGP related activities were run by enthusiasts from civ..
August 2, 2012
2012
MULTIPLE MEMBERS
All UK Government departments produced an open data strategy in June – alongside the Cabinet Office’s Open Data White Paper – pledging themselves to big releases of datasets and innovative open dat..
July 26, 2012
2012
Bulgaria
A month ago the Bulgarian cabinet voted in a 33 point action plan for achieving open governance. The main goals of this plan are financial transparency, public registry improvement, public consultatio..
July 26, 2012
2012
United Kingdom
A snap survey conducted by Local Interventions Group in Kavre district of Nepal predictably reveals that in average 87% of the public are unaware of the money that the government is spending in thei..
July 23, 2012
2012
MULTIPLE MEMBERS
One of our Facebook followers, Paul Beentjes, posted on our page: You hear this a lot these days: "Open data is a driver of economic growth". But how can you explain this? True, the link is not al..
July 21, 2012
2012