The Open Government Partnership (OGP), launched last month at the UN, sets basic standards of openness, such as publishing a draft state budget.
Through their participation in OGP, governments signal their commitment to openness and to meaningfully engage with independent civil society.
The Open Government Partnership's (OGP) summit will embody the growing global transparency movement.
At the Open Government Partnership (OGP) summit in London in November 2013, New Zealand became the 61st member of a rapidly expanding global movement.
We work with national researchers to document progress towards their governments' OGP action plans, and just released the first eight country reports.
In the first of a series of interviews with speakers and attendees at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) summit 2013, we talk to Professor Jonathan Fox, of the school of international service, American University, Washington.
While the UK may not have the worst corruption problem of all OGP countries, the Leveson inquiry shows that there is no room for complacency.
At the Open Government Partnership (OGP) summit 2013 we spoke to Douglas Rutzen, president and chief executive of the International Centre for Not-for-Profit Law, about the work he does to encourage greater civic participation with governments around the world.
Paul Maassen is an independent OGP civil society coordinator, based at Hivos in the Netherlands.
Speaking at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) summit 2013, delegates from Amnesty International, the Community of Democracies and the Croatian government agreed that governments with higher levels of transparency must lead by example.
These deterrents come in many forms constraints on access to funding, prohibitions against freedoms of expression, assembly and operations, and harassment and intimidation of government critics.Governments signed up to OGP should lead by example.
