By Tom Orrell at Publish What You Fund & Joni Hillman at the IATI Secretariat and Development Initiatives. This blog was was originally posted on the IATI website here. Have you ever taken a train in Spain? Driven from Belfast to Dublin? Or packed the wrong adaptor for a business trip? If so, you may […]
Publish What You Fund has sent a letter alongside Access Info Europe, Open Society European Policy Institute, and 50 international civil society organisations, which calls on Members of European Parliament (MEPs) to encourage EU institutions to sign up to the Open Government Partnership (OGP). As a civil society collective, we believe the OGP presents a series of […]
There’s now just one week to go until the general election here in the UK. We’ve been looking at the party manifestos and are pleased to see a cross-party awareness of the importance of open data. At the same time, the manifestos are lacking in specific details on what will be done to further the […]
The UK Open Government Network is a group of organisations and individuals committed to making government work better for people. We call on all political parties to put the principles of open government at the heart of their plans for government. Open government is the simple but powerful idea that governments and institutions work better for […]
Civil society, convened by OpentheGovernment.org, have released the second of 3 progress reports on the U.S. Government’s 2014-2015 National Action Plan (NAP) as part of the international Open Government Partnership (OGP). The report, which is at the mid-point of the current NAP, finds “commitments that are being implemented with active engagement of civil society seem […]
Guest post by Abby Paulson- Open the Government The Obama administration publicly declared a dedication to open government early on with a pledge to become the most transparent in history and later co-founding the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The OGP requires participating countries to create National Action Plans including concrete commitments to improve government openness. […]
