Tag Archives: OGP Action Plans

Eight countries present OGP action plans [MAP, UPDATED]

At an Open Government Partnership meeting in London in April 2013, delegations from across the globe came together to present their action plans to the OGP Steering Committee. As of May 20, 2013, the action plans of Argentina, Costa Rica, Finland, Ghana and Panama have been posted on the OGP website. Click on each country below for

Codes of Practice for Consultations [WEBINAR]

The Open Government Partnership Networking Mechanism is pleased to start the new year with a Webinar on Codes of Practice for Consultations taking place on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 10:00 AM EST. We hope you can join us. Please see the details below. REGISTER for this webinar here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHpQZDdGWW9Dc1VuYzd2VHFJM0lWQWc6MA JOIN the Webinar here (login 5 minutes before the scheduled time): http://worldbankva.adobeconnect.com/ogpweb/ Date

Open Government Partnership August Update

The OGP publishes a monthly newsletter. Want to receive it? Please email info [at] opengovpartnership.org with ‘subscribe to OGP newsletter’ in the header. This month’s edition can be found below in English. Please feel free to post your comments at the bottom of this page. For Spanish and Portuguese translations please click here. In this

So What’s In Those OGP Action Plans, Anyway?

Originally posted on globalintegrity.org Over the last few weeks, Global Integrity has been busy poring over National Action Plans submitted by Open Government Partnership participant countries to make sense of the heaps of commitments contained therein. Last month we presented our analysis of the plans using SMART criteria on this blog. Our assessment gave us

“Open government is an international trend and an obligation”

When asked what he understood by Open Government during the OGP Brasilia 2012 meeting, Genc Pollo, Minister for Innovation and ICT in the Albanian government replied Open government is an international trend In the interview Minister Pollo put the accent on transparency: governments have an obligation to tell people what they are really doing. As the