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This blog originally appeared on the World Resources Institute website, and is shared here with WRI’s permission. Countries made many national climate commitments as part of the Paris Agreement on climate change, which entered into force earlier this month. Now…

The OGP Mexico City summit of 2015 saw Sri Lanka become the 69th country to join OGP. Since then, the Sri Lankan Parliament has passed the Right to Information (RTI) Act and the Cabinet has passed its first OGP National…

OGP's website is getting a new look in the new year as well as updated tools and resources to better serve the greater open government community. Focusing on the concrete needs of all constituents of the OGP process -- government,…

UPDATE: The Mid-Term Final report is now available here.   In June 2016 OGP commissioned a mid-term review of its current four-year strategy. The review was carried out by the Development Portfolio Management Group based at the University of Southern…

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…