The Open Government Partnership's 2017 Americas Regional Meeting included a new focus on cities, and it opened conversations about data, experiences, and shared learning across continents. Here's what we heard from three days in Buenos Aires.
Continue readingTrump administration commits to participating in Open Government Partnership
The big idea behind the Open Government Partnership’s founding in 2011 was that it would provide a platform for the public to hold a national government accountable for meeting commitments that have been created in open consultation between the governed and a government of the people. When countries elect leaders like President Donald J. Trump who don’t value basic democratic norms for accountability, transparency and ethics, it poses a stern test: can a voluntary mechanism between community of democracies be used to protect and defend it?
Continue readingOpen government reformers warn of growing dangers to democracy
Democracy is at risk. Spaces for civil society are closing. Those are the somber messages that arose again and again at the first day of the annual Open Government Partnership Summit in Paris.
Continue readingWhat’s at stake in the future of U.S. participation in the Open Government Partnership
In the years ahead, upholding transparency will be a primary goal from Paris to Tokyo to Buenos Aires. The United States continuing participation in the Open Government Partnership will help us achieve it here in D.C.
Continue readingHow should history measure the Obama administration’s record on transparency?
Over the past seven years, we have both acknowledged this administration’s progress on open government and decried its failures.
Continue readingThe White House must release guidance on open government plans
The delay in releasing guidance around executive agency open government plans signals a troubling lack of commitment to transparency.
Continue readingWhy the OGP needs to get serious about freedom of information laws
The Open Government Partnership and the next Argentine government need to take freedom of information laws much more seriously.
Continue readingIs the U.S. living up to open government commitments?
Despite President Obama’s 2009 pledge to usher in a “new era of openness,” the White House has fallen short of civil society expectations.
Continue readingWatchdogs call for OGP investigation into crackdown on Hungarian civil society
As the crackdown on civil society continues in Hungary, NGOs are now calling on the Open Government Partnership to launch a thorough investigation into the matter.
Continue readingCivil society in Ukraine takes a stand for open government
Transparency International Ukraine, with the support of broader Ukrainian civil society, has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk demanding that the country fulfills commitments to the Open Government Partnership.
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