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Governments have the responsibility to share information with citizens in a readily understandable way. Openness and accountability will help to strengthen democracies and guarantee trust. The process of demanding transparency should also include public participation and citizen engagement. These platforms were created with the goal of offering information on how governments are spending money or implementing policies and what are the best ways in which citizens could monitor these processes.
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Automated monitoring, issue management, analysis and reporting of political affairs.
Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) is a convenor and connector of civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations and journalists towards promoting Open Parliaments across Africa.
Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.
Act Hub Africa is a civic-tech NGO that works to promote good governance, democracy, ensure openness and transparency in the local governments by making their fiscal data available in a simplified, easy to understand form and engage people in the local government areas on how to use them in engaging their political officeholders
This year, we want to do a bit more. In addition to events, we’re collecting and sharing how the open government movement – even in challenging times – is aligned and how our stories can be a bright spot for the world.
Is the biggest public repository of Open Data in Colombia, created by the IT Ministry with the goal of fostering collaboration and the development of new applications and visualizations.
Civic tech tools are often not used to the extent that their creators hoped for.
En 2015, Transparencia Mexicana (TM) y el Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (IMCO) lanzaron la plataforma independiente #3de3 para promover y recibir las declaraciones de situación patrimonial, de intereses y fiscal de quienes competían por un cargo de elección popular.
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