On June 12, 2015 the Republic of Liberia convened a Stakeholders’ Interactive Forum to Validate the Open Government Partnership Action Plan at the Ministry of Information (MICAT). Participants included members of the OGP Steering Committee who came from various counties,…
Open government is often referred to as a two way street, providing citizens access to a flow of government information, as well as a voice in decisions that affect them. But even those people who want to be part of…
Tomemos el gobierno abierto en su dimensión tecnológica (es decir, sin considerar los mecanismos de participación y colaboración con interacción tangible, como presupuestos participativos y algunos formatos que pueden resultar híbridos como incubadores cívicos, design thinking ciudadano, etc.). Ahora recuperemos…
El Gobierno Abierto busca que la administración pública trabaje en estrecha relación con la sociedad civil para impulsar la participación ciudadana, incrementar la transparencia y combatir de mejor forma a la corrupción usando a la tecnología como habilitador de esta…
This week, Results for Development’s education team published a multi-year effort assessing the effectiveness and impact of citizen-led education assessments of student learning. The various initiatives and campaigns (“CLAs” for short) are part of a vanguard effort in the education…
A continuación indico aquí la relación de las -en torno a 100-iniciativas analizadas en mi investigación “Justicia Abierta: transparencia y proximidad de la justicia dentro del actual contexto de Open Government“. La idea era examinar iniciativas relacionadas con el concepto…
26 POCs on one stage! Early last month, 26 OGP Points of Contact or POCs, (the people who serve as liaison between their government and the OGP support unit) met for a 2-day regional meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia opened…
In 2015, the governments on the Open Government Partnership Steering Committee will rotate for the second time since OGP was launched in September 2011. As the number of countries participating in OGP has grown – from the founding 8 to…
Mr Pethuel A. K. Danyo, Deputy Director at Public Sector Reforms Secretariat in Ghana, responds to Ugonna Ukaigwe's blog post entitled 'Ghana's absence at the OGP Africa Regional meeting: did it matter?'. The OGP Africa Regional Meeting held in Tanzania ended…
Successive Governments in Sierra Leone as part of its democratic renewals and post-conflict reform processes have made considerable efforts toward inclusive participation of Civil Society (CS) in governance. Additionally, the leadership of Ernest Bai Koroma instituted the Open Government Initiative (OGI)…
