There’s been plenty of chatter in recent months about a possible post-2015 Millennium Development Goal on governance following the release of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The report called out “good governance and effective institutions” as one of 12 “illustrative” goals that nations might consider when adopting new development…
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Civil society organizations are becoming increasingly vocal about the need for OGP to get serious about surveillance.
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Our TESTING 1 2 3 Innovation Fund project in the capital city of Belgrade, Serbia aims to make urban planning procedures and practices more accessible to citizens via a web portal. Unsurprisingly, our project and its theory of change depend heavily on the availability of urban planning documents in electronic form. This post explores how our simple…
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On October 8th we launched Quién Manda (Who’s the Boss?), one of Global Integrity’s Innovation Fund experiments. That’s the good news. The “bad news” is that since the release we haven’t been able to see the bottom of our inboxes, as the reception by citizens has been extremely positive. More than a hundred people wrote to us…
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Today at 11:15 BST, Global Integrity will be leading a session at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit in London on the New Frontiers of Open Government to discuss the next generation challenges for both government and civil society. As Nathaniel Heller mentioned this past weekend in the run-up to the Summit, “OGP’s institutional design…
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As the Open Government Partnership summit kicks off today in London, the US government has released a “preview” of their next National Action Plan. The full report is here.
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