This is the fourth post in our five part series of Q&As with selected countries and their experiences with the OGP process at the national level is with Patrice McDermott, Executive Director OpenTheGovernment.org, Wayne Moses Burke, Executive Director Open Forum Foundation in the US. 1. Describe the process The OGP initiative requires the delivery
As Latin American governments and their civil society partners meet in Santiago to discuss the Open Government Partnership, we consider their OGP commitments. Of the 58 countries that make OGP, 15 are of Latin America and the Caribbean. 11 of the 15 countries – Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic
Chile is hosting a Regional Outreach Meeting of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) for Latin America on the 10th and 11th January 2013. It will be opened by Cristián Larroulet, Minister Secretary-General of the Chilean Presidency, who commented: The fact that Chile is hosting a meeting of such magnitude is a major example of the
In South Africa spring is newly sprung, and that energy has been channeled into a comprehensive civil society monitoring plan for the South African Open Government Partnership Commitments. South Africa, as a founding partner, lodged its Action Plan of eight core commitments on 20 September 2012. It is almost a year since they were official
Among the new member countries which have joined the EU since 2004, Poland and Slovenia are the only ones that have not joined the Open Government Partnership (OGP) yet. For Poland, this is surprising as the country had met the eligibility criteria of OGP. When they found out that this was the case, a group
A snap survey conducted by Local Interventions Group in Kavre district of Nepal predictably reveals that in average 87% of the public are unaware of the money that the government is spending in their villages for education, health and infrastructure. In a mad rush to spend off the money just before the fiscal year closes