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Monitoring,  evaluation and learning mechanisms help ensure that open government strategies and initiatives initiatives are achieving their intended goals. This includes identifying institutional actors in charge of collecting and disseminating reliable information and data about related initiatives, developing comparable indicators, and fostering a culture conducive to monitoring, evaluation and learning. The relevance of these practices for public policies can hardly be overestimated, as they…

Public communication plays an essential role in the everyday lives of citizens, who increasingly expect instantaneous access to information from and engagement with their governments. Whether it is to make informed decisions, learn about rights and duties, or advocate for policy change, citizens and civil society organisations rely on governments’ ability to disseminate relevant information. Communication is also a key government lever to raise awareness of open government reforms and help…

Governments around the world are recognizing the need to introduce open government reforms to better deliver on the demands of their citizens. This is not, however, something that can be achieved by government reformers alone. Involving various stakeholders and building coalitions to achieve change is an imperative of open government reforms. This is easier said than done.  This section includes principles and methods to engage with various stakeholders, ways to use evidence and digital…

Open Government initiatives should not exist in isolation. A whole-of-government approach is needed to ensure the widest possible impact. This requires strategic thinking and practical coordination across levels and branches of government. In this section, you will find guidance on how to design an open government strategy, as well as key considerations to keep in mind for successful open government initiatives. See cases from others doing this in government Find experts and advisers who can...

Open State is when the executive, legislature, judiciary, independent public institutions, and all levels of government- collaborate, exploit synergies, and share good practices and lessons learned to promote transparency, integrity, accountability, and stakeholder participation. This corresponds to provision 10 of the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Open Government. See cases from others doing this in government Find experts and advisers who can assist whith this

Elements to support implementation include coordination across government; monitoring, evaluation, and learning mechanisms; and communication. Implementation also includes the use of open data, digital tools, and innovation. These correspond to provisions 4, 5, 6, 9 of the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Open Government. See cases from others doing this in government Find experts and advisers who can assist whith this

These elements are important preconditions for developing open government strategies and initiatives, including political commitment, policy and legal frameworks; human, financial, and technical resources; access to data and information, stakeholder participation, and open government literacy. These correspond to Provisions 1, 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Open Government. See cases from others doing this in government Find experts and advisers who can assist whith…

Are you ready to add others to your innovation journey? You may consider toolkits that: Help you collaborate Help with building a team Help with visualising a system or mapping existing relationships Uncover relationships that might be hidden Focus on partnerships, organisational design or open government  

We may know what the problem is, what is at stake, and an understanding of what needs to be changed but lack a way to move ahead with the change. Some approaches and methodologies work better for situations in which we know that something needs improving or redesigning. Scale matters. Improving an individual interaction between people is more straightforward than improving the entire organisation or system in which that interaction happens. Based on the way...

We all know what the problems are, right? It can be easy to make this assumption as well as assume we know how problems are linked. A poorly defined or nuanced problem – common in the public sector – is much more difficult to solve than a problem you have clearly defined and understood. You may not even know what the problem is–it may be an unknown, ambiguous mess or a sense that what is...