Madrid/Luxembourg, 17 October 2013 — In a case brought by Access Info Europe, the European Court of Justice today rejected arguments by the Council of the European Union that it should be able to keep secret the identities of Member States making proposals in the context of negotiations on future EU legislation. This is the […]
The following post is from Alan Hudson, Policy Director (Transparency & Accountability) at ONE and Jonathan Gray, Director of Policy and Ideas at the Open Knowledge Foundation. Originally posted here. Last month we announced the Open Knowledge Foundation and ONE’s plans to support and strengthen the community of activists and advocacy organisations working to enable […]
Guest post by George Ingram, chair of our U.S. Advisory Committee. Originally posted here. As a senator and now as president, Barack Obama has set the pace on open government. The commitments have been impressive. However—and sometimes understandably—implementation has lagged. But unless there are unknown steps afoot, the administration risks losing the momentum at theOpen Government Partnership […]
Cross-posted on the Open Government Partnership blog. As a co-founder of the Open Government Partnership, the Obama Administration presented its first National Action Plan (NAP) in 2011. Importantly, this plan included the commitment to “release and implement government wide reporting requirements for foreign aid.” The OMB bulletin released in September 2012 met the first half of this commitment unambiguously. The […]
In a high level meeting taking place at the U.S. State Department today and launched by Secretary Clinton and Brazilian Foreign Minister Patriota, ministers from nearly 60 countries join representatives from more than 40 civil society organisations to discuss best practices, tools, technologies and methodologies to enhance open government, including aid transparency. The event is […]
