The Open Government Partnership’s IRM is a key means by which all stakeholders can track progress on OGP action plans in participating countries. By tracking progress, it promotes strong accountability between member governments and citizens. The IRM invites your comments on its draft guide for researchers, beginning today through March 7, 2013. The research guide
Want to know what’s going on within the OGP? We are organising a few conference calls in the first week of March in which you can talk with the civil society Steering Committee members. The calls will provide a good way for them to share their priorities for the coming months, but are especially an
By Linda Frey, OGP Support Unit Executive Director On January 2nd I started as Executive Director of the Open Government Partnership Support Unit. Quite a mouthful, huh? Most of my family members still have only a vague sense of what this actually means, though I’ve been diligently practicing my elevator speech since accepting the job last
***UPDATE*** This call closed Friday, 8 February, 2013 for the following countries: Brazil, Mexico, Philippines, South Africa, United Kingdom. The call has been extended until 1700 Eastern Standard Time, Monday, February 25, 2013 for the following countries: Indonesia, Norway, and United States. The Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) is seeking
This blog first appeared on the Huffington Post website. The movement for transparency and openness in government took decisive steps forward last week. As lead co-chair of the Open Government Partnership, the UK hosted the first ministerial level meeting in Britain of this growing international initiative. But this meeting wasn’t just symbolically significant. We put
About 80 representatives from 16 governments, international organisations and five civil society organisations came together on 10th December, 2012 in Rome to debate at the third European Outreach Meeting of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) dedicated to Transparency, participation and collaboration: the Public Administration is open to dialogue, organised by the Italian Department of Public
Meeting of the Members of the OGP Steering Committee The OGP Steering Committee has set out a Multilateral Engagement Framework for Multilateral and international organisations to take part in the Open Government Partnership (OGP). In order to take part, organisations need to send a letter of intent, affirming their agreement to OGP principles and the
This guest blog post was originally published on the Opening Parliaments blog The Open Government Partnership (OGP) has been successful in bringing aboard nearly 60 countries to make commitments — some more concrete than others — toward transparency and openness in government. It has been barely more than a year since governments began submitting action plans to OGP, outlining