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Before Brazil’s first OGP action plan even had its one year anniversary, preparations for a new action plan and consultation process were already underway. In fact, conversations around a new action plan and a more robust consultation process started back…

In 2012, the City of Palo Alto designed and deployed a platform for making it easy for departments to publicly post raw data and for a wide variety of community stakeholders to access that data. In addition, this open data technology enabled…

Susan Crawford and Beth Noveck in conversation at Social Media Week New York 2013 about open government, social media and technology. Towards the end, Councillor Gail Brewer of NYC talks about the implementation of the city's Open Data Bill, coming into force March 7, 2013.…

Janice Charette, associate secretary to the cabinet, Government of Canada, talks about integrity in public service. The degree to which public servants are held in high esteem, she says, depends on their own high integrity, transparency and accountability. They must…

Coming out of the regional meeting of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) held in Santiago, Chile, from January 10-11, it’s clear that the movement to open the world’s parliaments has a number of allies outside of civil society and parliamentary monitoring…

Alejandro Ferreiro: "Hemos sido capaces de definir como país lo que queremos en esta materia" Video of Alejandro Ferreiro: "Hemos sido capaces de definir como país lo que queremos en esta materia"   En el Parlamento chileno y la Comisión…

Federico Allendes, presidente de Pro-Acceso: "Los avances en transparencia en Chile han sido notables." Federico Allendes: "Los avances en transparencia en Chile han sido notables" Video of Federico Allendes: "Los avances en transparencia en Chile han sido notables" Como parte…

This is the fourth post in our five part series of Q&As with selected countries and their experiences with the OGP process at the national level is with Patrice McDermott, Executive Director OpenTheGovernment.org, and Wayne Moses Burke, Executive Director Open…

Last week, Latin America advanced its commitment to open government with a regional conference in Santiago, Chile and welcomed Argentina as the 58th country to join the Open Government Partnership. Roughly 300 representatives from Latin American governments, civil society and…

In Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, we have taken the next step in building upon an already strong digital presence by launching our new openMontgomery platform. The platform consists of a series of tools that improve government transparency, service efficiency…