More voices mean smarter cities

With the ink barely dry on the Sustainable Development Goals, naturally the just-completed Open Government Partnership annual summit focused on how greater openness can accelerate progress toward the goals.   The open government agenda is most closely linked to the ambitious Goal 16 on…

Introducing the OGP Explorer

Today OGP is launching a new tool, the OGP Explorer. The core idea behind the OGP Explorer is to give the OGP community - civil society, academics, governments, journalists - easy access to the wealth of data that OGP has…

Declaración sobre el Progreso de la Ley General de Transparencia en México

Want to read this blog in English? A mediados del mes de febrero, el Ejecutivo Federal de México propuso una serie de cambios de última hora a la Ley General de Transparencia que pusieron en riesgo los recientes avances en…

Statement from the OGP-Co-Chairs on Mexico’s General Transparency Law

¿Quieres leer este blog en español? In mid-February, the Mexican Federal Executive Branch proposed a series of last minute changes to the General Transparency Law that put recent constitutional transparency reforms at risk, at odds with the open legislative process…

So What’s In Those New OGP Action Plans, Anyway? 2014 Edition.

Over the summer we received many questions on the content of the new OGP national action plans. The most common question was about how one could find commitments made in a particular issue area. To provide a useful response to this…