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Does privatizing government services require FOIA reform to sustain open government?
Tap.jpg I read an editorial on “open government” in the United Kingdom by Nick Cohen today, in which he argues that Prime Minister David Cameron is taking “Britain f..

October 4, 2013

2013

Open Knowledge Foundation – Ireland: Submission for Ireland’s OGP National Action Plan*
Turning Government Data into Gold - we are sitting on a resource that has a potential market worth tens of billions of Euro, that could stimulate new innovations, and that could increase the transpare..

October 2, 2013

2013

IRM releases Norwegian report for public comment
Norway-700.jpg The Open Government Partnership’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) has launched its fourth of eight reports; this one is on Norway and can be fou..

October 2, 2013

2013

Case Study (2013): Italy’s Compass of Transparency
The Compass of Transparency (www.magellanopa.it/bussola) is an automated online portal, which gives citizens the ability to monitor, in real time and in a uniform manner, whether the websites of vario..

October 1, 2013

2013

Case Study (2013): Realizing the Potential of Open Data in Moldova
In April 2011, Moldova became one of the rst countries within Eastern Europe to launch an Open Data portal. The portal, www.date.gov.md brings together disparate and disconnected datasets published b..

October 1, 2013

2013

Case Study (2013): “Citizens Voice” Pioneering E-Democracy in Montenegro
The purpose of this online service was to promote active public participation and citizen engagement in policy making, by enabling Montenegrin citizens and permanent foreign residents to directly infl..

October 1, 2013

2013

Case Study (2013): The Norwegian Plain Language Project
In March 2007, the Norwegian Government invited almost 100 ordinary citizens to ‘The Governments Citizen Conference’ to give their views on how the government could work better. Two of the most import..

October 1, 2013

2013

IRM releases UK report for public comment
The Open Government Partnership’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) has launched its third report, this one on the UK which can be found below. IRM progress reports are carried out by an indepen..

September 27, 2013

2013

Analysis of the UK IRM Report
The UK is now deep into the detail of developing the commitments which will form its second National Action Plan. This will be published at the Annual Summit at the end of October.  The release of the..

September 27, 2013

2013

CKAN Hackathon for Open Data is Taking Place on 28th September in Dublin
A CKAN hackathon is taking place on Saturday, 28th September at TCube in Dublin bringing together IT specialists, political representatives and members of the public with an interest in making data op..

September 26, 2013

2013

Ukraine: Civil society needs to be active and proactive
President V. F. Yanukovych expressed Ukraine’s intent to join the OGP in September 2011, right after the global initiative was launched. Like other countries in the post-soviet region, Ukraine set gre..

August 23, 2013

2013

First Year of OGP Implementation in Ukraine: Success or Failure?
Ukraine has fulfilled only 55 percent of the OGP commitments after a year of the initiative’s implementation in the country – shows the research conducted by a coalition of experts headed by Transpare..

August 19, 2013

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