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Disinformation and Information Integrity

Disinformation negatively impacts public health, democracy, and national security. Policy—especially open government policy—has a role to play not only in nurturing a healthy information environment, but also in ensuring that “fake news laws” are not co-opted into a weapon to silence voices critical of the powerful. Information integrity is also essential to ensure that lines of communication between governments and members of the public are trustworthy and accurate. Open government approaches can help promote high-quality information, rather than taking a punitive approach to disinformation.

A multi-stakeholder approach to counter disinformation is necessary to ensure that solutions are feasible, protect rights, and take positive steps to promote information integrity. Collaboration between governments, civil society, journalists, and the private sector (especially big tech) is needed to effectively counter misinformation and disinformation. Other actors, such as political parties and parliamentarians, can also play an essential role in ensuring the integrity of the information space.


The Open Gov Guide

The Open Gov Guide is the go-to resource for open government reformers. The guide provides concrete recommendations for policy makers, civil society representatives, and more on how to apply open government principles to real-world challenges. Readers can also use the guide to learn more about how governments at the national and local level are putting these values into practice through OGP action plans and beyond.

Learn more about this policy area in the “Disinformation and Information Integrity” chapter of the Open Gov Guide.


Challenge Commitments

As part of the Open Gov Challenge, the OGP Support Unit would like to recognize some of the most inspiring commitments made by participants to date. Read more about these exciting reforms on this topic below.

For a full list of Challenge commitments submitted by members, visit our Open Gov Challenge Commitment Tracker.

Combat Misinformation and Disinformation

The government will collaborate with civil society to conduct a human rights assessment of existing legislation on misinformation and disinformation while protecting free speech, alongside fact-checking, media literacy, and public education initiatives.

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All Commitments by OGP Members

Explore all digital governance commitments from OGP members.

The following list reflects commitments submitted through national or local action plans. For more details, visit OGP’s Data Dashboard.

Filter the commitments according to three categories evaluated by the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM): ambition, completion, and early results.

  • Ambition: Beginning with 2020 action plans, the IRM assesses ambition using an indicator called “Potential for Results.” This indicator is an early marker of a commitment’s potential to yield meaningful results, based on how the commitment is articulated in the action plan and the state of play in the respective policy area.
  • Completion: For each commitment, OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) evaluates the degree to which the activities outlined in the commitment were implemented.
  • Early Results: Beginning with 2021 action plans, the IRM assesses commitment results using an indicator called “Early Results”. This indicator compares the state of transparency, citizen participation, and/or public accountability before the action plan with the state at the end of the action plan.

Commitment List

116 Commitments related to Digital Governance by all members
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What is this showing?

This table shows all commitments that match the filters selected at the top of the page. At least one filter must be selected to populate this table. Use the tags above the table to further filter by commitment quality (e.g. ambitious, complete). Click on commitment titles to learn more about each commitment. Click on “Featured” icons to access stories, where available.

Why is this data helpful? (why did we choose it?)

This table enables finding existing commitments in specific policy areas, regions, and years, as well as top-performing commitments by using the built-in table filters.

How is this calculated?

The commitment performance metrics (e.g. ambitious, complete) are derived directly from IRM reports. See the terms below for details. The Year field shows the year in which the commitment was first submitted. Icons in the Featured field indicate that a story is available on the OGP website.


Learn More

Data Dashboard: Explore data on how OGP members are implementing reform in key policy areas, including information on the ambition and early results of commitments

OGP Resources: Find all of OGP’s stories of reform, IRM reports, fact sheets, and other information in one place.


Digital Governance Stories

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Faces of Open Government: Virginia Pardo

In this interview, Virginia Pardo, Director of the Information Society Department at the Agency for Electronic Government and Information and Knowledge Society (AGESIC) in Uruguay, shares how innovative and transparent digital services are designed to meet public needs.

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Take the Challenge

The Open Gov Challenge is a call to action for all members of OGP to raise ambition in ten areas of open government to help strengthen our democracies.

Join hundreds of reformers around the world – in government and civil society – who are working to make their communities stronger, more open, participatory, inclusive, and accountable.

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