Eighteen months on from the launch of the Open Government Partnership in New York in September 2011, there is growing attention to what has been achieved to date. In the recent OGP Steering Committee meeting in London, government and civil society members were unanimous in the view that the OGP must demonstrate results and impact
Only a week after Hungary presented its OGP action plan in London, MPs of the governing Fidesz party initiated the amendment of the Freedom Of Information (FOI) act watering down existing legislation by limiting access to data of public interest for only two government oversight bodies, the State Audit Office (ÁSZ) and the Government Control
Janice Charette, associate secretary to the cabinet, Government of Canada, talks about integrity in public service. The degree to which public servants are held in high esteem, she says, depends on their own high integrity, transparency and accountability. They must also be responsive and citizen-orientated, whether they work in direct service delivery or policy
The UK’s Cabinet Secretary was originally writing in The Independent about the motivation behind Whitehall’s data crusade. For as many years as Britain has had a centralised civil service we have been rather good at collecting information. From the first censuses in 1801 to the creation of the Central Statistical Office by Winston Churchill, the
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) offers communities around the world an opportunity to make government more accountable, and help citizens combat corruption, regardless of their gender. Even in countries where women and men enjoy “equality” in the public sphere, they are often affected by corruption in surprisingly different ways. Funds directed toward women, are more
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 you want to present to others for feedback, meld with others’ ideas to make
#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 show it off to the great and the good. So that’s how Dan Thompson and
OGP participating government, Montenegro launched an e-petitions platform this week (9 Oct), which will enable citizens to submit e-petitions to the Government. The website, which is yet to be launched will be known as “Citizens Voice – e-Petitions.” Initiated by Prime Minister Igor Lukšić, and implemented with the support of UNDP Montenegro, the project