At OGP Global Summit OGP welcomes Cote d’Ivoire to the Open Government Partnership South Africa becomes OGP Lead co-Chair Mexico City, 28 October 2015 – The Government of South Africa today formally took over the lead co-chairmanship of the Open…
The Open Government Partnership (OGP), a unique coalition of governments and civil society organizations (CSOs) dedicated to making governments more open, accountable and responsive to citizens, is hosting its Global Summit in Mexico City this week. The OGP recognizes that governments…
This article was originally published on the WRI website here. How can open government accelerate implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2015 development agenda? That’s the big question on the table at this year’s Global Summit of the…
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit in Mexico City this week brings together more than 1,500 participants, including ministers, from around the world. While OGP member governments have made notable progress toward transparency and accountability through the four-year-old partnership, there has been…
One of the first letters the Open Government Partnership (OGP) received upon its creation was from a mayor in Colombia, requesting that his city be able to participate in the initiative. But we had to turn him down. At the…
There is a huge amount of talk about a ‘data revolution’. The phrase emerged in the years preceding this September’s announcement of the Sustainable Development or Global Goals, caught on, and has recently been strongly reaffirmed by the launch of…
Supporting progress toward open and accountable governance by conducting research, by generating data, by supporting country-level learning and through global advocacy is what we at Global Integrity are all about. So, we’re excited to be joining thousands of open government…
There can be no doubt that we are witnessing a global trend that devalues and restricts the role civil society can play in building just and equal societies. This trend cuts across categories of wealth, geography, and political system, with…
The overarching theme of the 2015 Mexico OGP Global Summit next week is the role of open government in accelerating the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Early efforts to link these two mutually reinforcing agendas are already…
The Open Government Partnership was designed from its launch in 2011 to be a different type of multilateral initiative, one that places government and civil society on an equal footing. OGP pushes for the implementation of policy reforms, not only…
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