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Why is the OpenGov movement siloed?
As a follow up to my post ‘on the open government movement and silos’ quite a few people came back to me asking ‘well this is all very nice but why are open government groups not working better...
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Follow the Money, Follow the Data
Some thoughts which I hope may be helpful in advance of the ‘follow the data’ hack day this week-end: The open data sector has quite successfully focused on socially-relevant information: fixing...
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The Missing Link: How to Engage the Private Sector in OGP
Exciting Open Government Partnership (OGP) related development: a ‘private sector council’ has been created to develop recommendations for the OGP Steering Committee on engaging the private sector....
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The Ambition of Open Government Partnership
Coming back from two weeks on the road for OGP events, I’ve been struck by a few important developments within the global platform that OGP has now clearly become that I wanted to share: (1) This...
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OGP as a platform
Being within the Open Government Partnership (OGP), or even at the head of OGP, does not turn your country into a paragon of openness. On the contrary, it opens your country up to a process where you...
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What can OGP do for me?
We know that the Open Government Partnership is a powerful tool to implement national-level change. Brazil enacted its Freedom of Information Law thanks to OGP, the UK committed to public registries of...
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