Region: Europe
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United Kingdom
Participatory budgeting - which involves local people when making decisions about how public money is spent on specific projects - has proved popular with voters and is here to stay. Our certainty a..
February 1, 2013
2013
Republic of Moldova
This is the third in our five part series of Q&As with selected countries and their experiences with the OGP process at the national level. This post is a Q&A with Veronica Cretu, President “CMB” Trai..
January 3, 2013
2013
Croatia
One of the most meaningful ways the public can interact with the government is through public consultations on laws. Croatia made improving the quality of their public consultations a key tenet of the..
January 1, 2013
2013
Estonia
A strong focus of the first Estonian OGP action plan is developing public e-services. The ultimate goal is to make government easy and accessible to everybody. The first step in doing this has been to..
January 1, 2013
2013
Greece
Access to information at all levels of public life is a crucial component of a true information society. This was the position the Greek government took when it came to reforming how they publish thei..
January 1, 2013
2013
Croatia
This is the first 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 first post is a Q&A with Katarina Ott, Dir..
December 18, 2012
2012
United Kingdom
This blog first appeared on the Huffington Post website. The movement for transparency and openness in government took decisive steps forward last week. As lead co-chair of the Open Government Partner..
December 12, 2012
2012
United Kingdom
The UK's Cabinet Secretary was originally writing in The Independent about the motivation behind Whitehall's data crusade. For as many years as Britain has had a centralised civil service we have b..
December 5, 2012
2012
United Kingdom
Originally published in the Huffington Post This is a pivotal moment for international transparency and open government. Just over a year after it was launched, the Open Government Partnership has ..
December 1, 2012
2012
Bulgaria
Courtesy of Boyan Yurukov During a recent visit to Bulgaria, the European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes commented on the digital development in Bulgaria - both the good and the..
November 21, 2012
2012