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This guest blog by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, was originally posted on Wired.co.uk. Originally, the acute frustration which led me to invent the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989…

Open Government Summit Rome As an Italian, I know all too well that Italy has not always been considered at the forefront of the open government movement. But things are now changing fast. The crisis which brought about new economic…

 What are you doing the day after Halloween? We are hosting an Ideathon in our new OpenGov Hub from 6:30 to 830pm and you should join us. We at Global Integrity understand that many of you have half-baked ideas that…

#wewillgather is a new platform to help people organise “good things” in their local community, leveraging the power of their online social networks.  The site has been running for a few weeks now so we thought it was time to…

We are delighted to announce two new members of the Open Government Partnership Support Unit team. Joseph Foti joined as Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) Program Manager earlier in October and Linda Frey joins as Executive Director early in the New…

When governments' efforts of promoting transparency and accountability in the governmental sector are accompanied by engaging civil society in the decision-making and monitoring processes, the achievable results extend beyond the material benefits. Ultimately, people's trust in the public administration and…

The open government movement has a very real challenge: ensuring that open government efforts continue to positively transform the lives of citizens around the world. In the pursuit of true, sustainable impact from openness, contracting is a key component. Open…

At the Brasilia conference, the OGP community discussed the best mechanism on rotation of the civil society members of the OGP Steering Committee. A group of volunteers and the CSO members of the Steering Committee then captured their thinking in this draft…

 Is access to open public data a service, like education, or a right, like free speech? Services are optional Governments collect taxes and use the money to provide services to their citizens. Because tax revenue is finite, no government can…

The Open Government Partnership initiative is truly popular and completely necessary worldwide, but when it comes to the post-Soviet space, its importance is hard to overestimate. The reason is probably obvious – though the Soviet Union fell more than 20…