Americas

One of the major goals of the Government of Canada’s open government work has been to support a more seamless end-user experience. We have found that users want government information, especially data, but do not want to have to deal…

“For us, open government is a government that is closer to its citizens”, says rafael Ariztía, head of the state modernization Unit, when asked about the Chilean government’s vision of OGP. He means this both in a conceptual and a…

This is the second in a five part series of posts based on Q&As with selected countries and their experiences with the OGP process at the national level. This post is a Q&A with Emilene Morales Martinez, independent Regional Civil Society Coordinator…

Source: Chris Herwig, Mapbox       In our conversations surrounding open government data, both domestically and internationally, we should be discussing best practices for making open data more open and accessible. Concretely, open data projects should include bulk data…

On September 19th, many of British Columbia’s leading minds on freedom of information and privacy issues gathered in downtown Vancouver for the 2012 BC Information Summit. Under the moniker This Time, It’s Personal: Freedom of Information and Privacy Under Government…

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, that of delivering an unprecedented level of government communication and openness to the American…

Along side the OGP meetings April 17-18, we spent two days opening local geo data with OpenStreetMap. There's a lot of excitement in Brazil around OpenStreetMap, which you can see in its recent community growth. Members from Track Source, Transparency…

More than just talking about open data at next week's OGP High-Level Conference in Brasilia, we will be making open data. This Sunday there will be an OpenStreetMap 'mapping party' where you can go out into town, map the area,…

The following blog entry was written by Dr. Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer, an innovator in deliberative democracy, public administration, and organizational development. She is Founder and President of Global Voices and AmericaSpeaks, a nonprofit organization that works to engage citizens in public decisions that…

It is difficult to find a unique and 140-character-long definition of what open government means. In the end, it is all about transparency and civic participation with the final objective of creating more effective and accountable institutions. People are understanding…