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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

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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

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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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UK: Cooperation, openness, participation, transparency and trust are the tenets of open policy-making
In the months leading up to the global launch of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in September 2011, the UK government, like other founding members, was engaged in a process of designing the OGP ..

August 16, 2013

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Montenegro: The challenge of constructive engagement (Country Article 9)
Montenegro: The challenge of constructive engagement (Country Article 9)
‘We have learned that it is very difficult to raise awareness of the importance of participation and to engage citizens constructively in government policy-making processes,’ says Sladjana Pavlovic of..

August 9, 2013

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Personal reflections on the value of the small changes emerging from Open Government
“Do we really need to come up with actions for the Open Government Action Plan 2014-2015 for our sector or even for our department, within the Ministry? “It is desirable”. “But then, it means we wil..

August 8, 2013

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Netherlands: Going Local with Open Government
The Netherlands submitted its letter of intent to join the OGP in September 2011 and the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations presented a draft Action Plan to the OGP Steering Committee in A..

August 2, 2013

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New webinar on Open Government, Tuesday, July 30th, 10:00 GMT
Diplo Foundation in Malta are hosting a webinar on issues realted to Open Government and would like to get your views and opinions. The session takes place tomorrow, July 30th, at 10:00 GMT. The even..

July 29, 2013

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Croatia: political transition provides a window of opportunity
‘The parliamentary elections at the end of 2011 were a very specific situation and time in Croatian politics when the people hoping to come to power expressed high levels of interest in and openness t..

July 16, 2013

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Infusing Moldova’s development agenda with the principles of open government
The government of the Republic of Moldova embarked on its e-Transformation agenda in 2010. This agenda involves a commitment to implementing Information Communication Technologies (ICT) with the aim o..

June 18, 2013

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Making Transparency Visible: an update of OGP in Ireland
In my previous post on the Open Government Partnership website, I posed the question: ‘Is Ireland closing the door on Open Government?’ At that time I expressed the view that Ireland’s government wa..

June 17, 2013

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Budget monitoring in an Amsterdam neighborhood
Graphics: Merijn Bram Rutgers The Centre for Budget Monitoring and Citizen Participation is a Dutch organization founded in December 2011. The foundation is the result of a co-operation between act..

June 13, 2013

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