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Want to read this blog in English? El cierre del espacio cívico es una tendencia preocupante que está ocurriendo en diversas regiones del mundo. En este momento activistas de Azerbaiyán a Turquía y de Hungría a Honduras están enfrentando situaciones…

¿Quieres leer este blog en español? Closing civic space is a worrisome trend surfacing across regions. As we sit reading this, civil society activists from Azerbaijan to Turkey, Hungary to Honduras, are facing situations where their freedoms to operate and…

TOWARD A TRANSPARENT AND COLLABORATIVE PUBLIC RELATIONSHIP I am pleased to launch this year’s Open Government Partnership World Summit, and thereby to promote, via means and actions, a more transparent and collaborative public action. An open government is one in…

This piece originally appeared in TheCityFix. Cities are where real progress is made for sustainable development. They’re where governments are closest to their citizens and where essential public services like education, health and transport are delivered to people. However, with…

This piece originally appeared on the OpeningParliament.org blog. ¿Quieres leer este blog en español? The Open Government Partnership (OGP) has always been positioned primarily as a platform. There are few detailed prescriptions of what member countries must do aside from…

Want to read this blog in English? Si los ciudadanos no pueden seguir el dinero, la gobernanza no es abierta. A pesar de importantes avances abriendo presupuestos gubernamentales y promoviendo la agenda de datos abiertos, en muchos países los ciudadanos…

A recap of the recent Independent Reporting Mechanism launches. It's been a busy few months at OGP. With the help of our partners and Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) researchers we've successfully released 36 IRM progress reports! These reports play a…

This blog was originally published on Asian Development Blog.   India.png A government public relations office in Mangalore, India.   In recent years there has been one critical instrument to making governments more responsive to citizens in how they provide…

MEDIA CONTACT:   Dietlind Lerner, Communications Director Open Government Partnership Support Unit dietlind.lerner@opengovpartnership.org   WASHINGTON, DC- The Open Government Partnership (OGP) announced 15 subnational governments from around the world chosen to participate in  a new pilot program, established to promote…

While there is no shortage of enthusiasm for open data’s potential, nor of conjectural estimates of its hypothetical impact, few rigorous, systematic analyses exist of its concrete, real-world impact. In the interest of addressing this important informational shortcoming, the GovLab…