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How did you get involved in open government? What in your background inspired you to work in this field? I started to work on what was not yet called “open government” in 2007. That year, France had a new president…

The fourth global OGP Summit will take place December 7th - 9th and will launch the Paris Declaration on OGP. The OGP Steering Committee and Support Unit are encouraging governments and civil society organizations to sign up to collective actions…

Spurred by recent electoral results, the BBC published an article asking whether these mark the end of liberal democracy. There are troubling signs of closing civic space and rise of authoritarianism.  Civicus reports that in 2015, there were violations of…

This is an adapted version of a talk to be given at the Academic Days alongside the OGP Global Summit in Paris, December 7-9. In times of fake news, referendums, and so-called “post-truth politics” the Open Government Partnership (OGP) community,…

Since the Open Government Partnership (OGP) was launched in 2011, 70 countries have committed to nearly 2500 individual open government reforms. Countries joining OGP in 2011 and 2012 were the first to produce OGP National Action Plans (NAPs). Many of…

1. Information IntegrityAhead of Nigeria’s 2011 election, the West African Non-Government Organisation Network reported troubling inaccuracies in the list of the nation’s polling stations. While preparing a digital map of voting locations, it discovered that as many as 28,000 polling…

International Anticorruption Conference, Panama It is a great honor and pleasure to participate in the International Anticorruption Conference (IACC) in Panama.  At this IACC, we face an ever more pressing imperative for action and impact.  From the US to Brexit…

Politics has often been the obstacle to greater transparency in Nepal. But the country’s open government movement took an important step forward last month, when twelve leading accountability and transparency groups gathered in the new OpenGov Hub Kathmandu- a resource…

This post originally appeared on the Natural Resource Governance Institute blog. For years, Tunisia’s extractives sector was viewed with skepticism. Information on reserves, the rights allocation, resource revenues and their management was particularly scarce. But during the last two years,…

This post originally appeared on the Global Witness blog.UK companies with hidden owners lie behind some of the worst problems of our time. Amongst other things they have been used to breach UN sanctions, evade taxes and rip off ordinary…