14th April 2015
Open government can be an abstract idea. We want to give people a better idea of what it is, and who is in the UK Open Government Civil Society Network. We’ve asked some existing members of the network to give us their thoughts on what open government means to them, why it’s important, where they have…
30th March 2015
Open government can be an abstract idea. We want to give people a better idea of what it is, and who is in the UK Open Government Civil Society Network. We’ve asked some existing members of the network to give us their thoughts on what open government means to them, why it’s important, where they have…
16th March 2015
Open government can be an abstract idea. We want to give people a better idea of what it is, and who is in the UK Open Government Civil Society Network. We’ve asked some existing members of the network to give us their thoughts on what open government means to them, why it’s important, where they have…
4th March 2015
Open government can be an abstract idea. We want to give people a better idea of what it is, and who is in the UK Open Government Civil Society Network. We’ve asked some existing members of the network to give us their thoughts on what open government means to them, why it’s important, where they have…
16th February 2015
Open government can be an abstract idea. We want to give people a better idea of what it is, and who is in the UK Open Government Civil Society Network. We’ve asked some existing members of the network to give us their thoughts on what open government means to them, why it’s important, where they have…
12th December 2014
Does your organisation have a story to tell on the impact of open government on your work and on the lives of citizens? What does open government mean and why is it important? Open government can be quite a broad and abstract concept. In simple terms it’s the idea that institutions work better for citizens when…
27th November 2014
From the Building Change Trust blog: “In the second of our two-part blog on openness in Government, David McBurney looks at transparency and trust.” Visit the site
25th November 2014
From the Building Change Trust blog: “Here in the first part of a two part blog guest blog we hear from OGP and #OpenGovNI member David McBurney talks about the different definitions of ‘openness’ and how the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise Sectors can work with government.” Visit the site
7th November 2014
From the Slugger O’Toole blog: “A key irony noted by Tim Hughes of Involve is that conversations about Open Government can very quickly become wonky and technical, and as a consequence begin to close out the ordinary citizen with techno jargon and insider speak.” Visit the site
6th November 2014
From The Detail: “THE words `Stormont’ and ’Open Government’ do not sit easily together. The political institutions are regularly found to be teetering on the edge of crisis. The smaller parties on the Executive claim to be left in the dark about DUP/Sinn Féin deals. And the British and Irish governments are accused of leading…