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Online Civic Space

The development and spread of new technologies is creating fresh opportunities and challenges for civic space. As societies become increasingly digitized, online spaces have become crucial arenas for public debate, political participation, and community building. But the same technologies have also presented significant threats to democracy, as they are increasingly used to surveil and repress citizens, spread disinformation, and harass, intimidate and attack minorities and women. Governments face complex challenges in regulating digital civic space. While there is a need to address harmful content and behavior online, overly restrictive regulations can curtail legitimate freedom of expression. Finding the right balance between protection and freedom remains a critical challenge, which open government reforms can help to address via multi-stakeholder engagement and non-legislative mechanisms.

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.

Challenge Commitments

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

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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Dominican Republic

2024

Expediente Único de Salud

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Dominican Republic

2024

#SoyYoRD – Mi Carpeta Ciudadana

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Dominican Republic

2024

National Municipal Service Platform

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Dominican Republic

2024

AI tool for access to information

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Pastaza, Ecuador

2024

Conecta Pastaza: Developing portal for road monitoring and transparency system

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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.

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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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Costa Rica

Improving Gender Disparities through Open Government Approaches in Costa Rica

In Costa Rica, technology-facilitated gender-based violence, violence against women in politics and gendered gaps in public policies and automated decision-making systems are urgent challenges to democracy. This blog from ACCESA explores how to address these issues.

Europe disinformation blog

Why Europe’s defence policy must battle disinformation

Europe is strengthening its collective defence in response to escalating disinformation, sabotage, and cyberattacks. But military measures alone are insufficient. Our strongest defence lies in resilient democracies.  Traditional warfare evokes imagery of trenches and air raids. But Europe’s contemporary reality…

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Ghana

Faces of Open Government: Winnifred Mahama

Under the Open Gov Challenge, Ghana has committed to protecting media freedom, a goal that reformer Winnifred Mahama, Acting Director of the Information Services Department, is making a reality. We discussed how this pledge is being turned into action.

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Uruguay

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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