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Tom Steinberg’s recent piece on Civicist raises familiar critiques of the open data movement, suggesting that advocacy is too incremental, political leaders are duplicitous and many basic problems have yet to be addressed. Much of this critique is deeply...

A series providing a round-up of media attention received by the Open Government Partnership throughout the world. This week, OGP was featured in news items around the globe. The biggest source of coverage  was Mexico, where open government issues made...

27 March 2015. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A two-day High Level Conference for policy-makers and community leaders on setting the scene for a sustainable development agenda powered by a Data Revolution in Africa. Hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission...

In my last blog post about the Digital Marketplace vision, I talked about how we’d like to help build digital and technology buying capability across government by connecting teams in a growing community of like-minded people. I also spoke about how...

This week the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a group of 66 countries, is holding a global summit in Mexico City to advance a new model for 21st-century governance. The Partnership is dedicated to making governments everywhere more "open, accountable...