Alex Howard’s article was originally posted on his e-pluribusunum blog on May 17. “Inevitably, there will be questions about what we are each prepared to sign up to,” said British Prime Minister David Cameron in January, in his letter to his fellow G8 leaders. For months later, Russia has made clear it clear what it wasn’t willing
As the OGP topic becomes increasingly popular and even trendy around the world, post-Soviet countries (despite the long-time tradition of their officials building an imaginary glass wall that held them off their citizens) now also keep abreast of new instruments for open governance promotion. Thus, NGOs (mostly National Chapters of Transparency International) and government representatives
CSC Newsletter No. 5 by emilenemartinez17
UK Prime Minister David Cameron today kicked off his country’s year-long presidency of the Group of Eight Industrialised Nations by writing a letter to his counterparts. The good news for the open government movement is that it’s clear that his administration intends to place transparency high-up the agenda. Here are some key extracts: At the
Source: RIA Novosti/Ekaterina Shtukina We are happy to share with you the information about OGP-related activity in Russia. On 12th -13th December, an open government conference took place in Moscow. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, officials from Russian federal and regional government bodies, and international experts for governmental openness took part in the event. Ivan Pavlov, Board
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 years ago, its principals, patterns and drawbacks of the political system are deeply rooted in