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Country: Sierra Leone Commitment: Records Management & Archives National Action Plan: 2014-2016 Sierra Leone’s current archives law dates to its early independence and many of the national archives were destroyed during its decade-long civil war. Without records, however, many administrative…

Cape Town, South Africa, May 4, 2016- The Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) today elected the government of Georgia and Mukelani Dimba, Executive Director of the Open Democracy Advice Centre (ODAC), to be the next government and…

Cape Town, South Africa, May 4, 2016 - The Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership today resolved that Azerbaijan will be regretfully designated as inactive in OGP, due to unresolved constraints on the operating environment for Non-Governmental Organizations. Azerbaijan…

You were very involved in bringing OGP to life. Are you surprised at how it’s developed? It’s all happened quickly. For several years a motley crew of us worked on the idea of open government, open budgets, open data –…

Estuviste muy involucrado en el proceso de creación de OGP. ¿Te sorprende lo que es ahora? Todo ha pasado muy rápido. Durante varios meses en un grupo heterogéneo trabajamos con la idea del gobierno abierto, presupuestos abiertos y datos abiertos,…

  This piece originally appeared in the World Bank Governance for Development blog.  I have worked on public procurement and governance for most of my life. But I have never been more excited to finally have a solution at hand…

Want to read this blog in English? En octubre de 2015 durante la Cumbre Global de Open Government Partnership (OGP) que se llevó a cabo en México, Costa de Marfil se unió a esta iniciativa internacional, siendo el primer miembro…

Want to read this blog in English? Están ocurriendo cosas importantes en los países africanos miembros de OGP. Sin embargo, en el reciente informe  de los “compromisos destacados de OGP” (las reformas más ambiciosas de OGP) no se incluyó ningún…

¿Quieres leer este blog en español? Big things are happening in African OGP countries. Yet, a recent report on OGP’s “starred commitments”--the most ambitious reforms in OGP-- did not feature any African commitments, showing the difficulty of implementation across the continent.…

Government reformers and development practitioners in the open government space are experiencing the heady times associated with a newly-defined agenda. The opportunity for innovation and positive change can at times feel boundless. Yet, working in a nascent field also means…

¿Quieres leer este blog en español? Close to a thousand delegates from the African continent and beyond are descending on Cape Town for the Open Government Partnership’s (OGP) Africa Regional Summit from 4 - 6 May 2016. At this grand…