How Accessible Data Technology Empowers the Impact of a Community-Driven Initiative

By Aria Nurfikry and Endiyan Rakhmanda, Dattabot

In Bojonegoro, Indonesia, women are harvesting data from their villages to improve service delivery - but the process needs improvement, and Dasa Wisma is leading the way. Find out more here.

OGP as framework for change: The experience of Buenos Aires

By Alvaro Herrero, Buenos Aires Municipal Government

Buenos Aires had already been working on openness before it became a Subnational Pioneer. OGP has strengthened both its resolve and its reforms, with exciting results in health, education, and elsewhere. Read about these successes here.

Open data and the gender wage gap in Jalisco, Mexico

By Laura Zamora, University of Guadalajara, and Pablo Renteria, Jalisco Government

There are fewer than a dozen OGP commitments relating to gender - but the state of Jalisco, Mexico, is looking to change that. As a commitment in their Subnational Action Plan, they are attacking the gender wage gap - and using open data to do it. Find out more about this exciting commitment here.

In 2013, CNN called Madrid the “city of protests” after a series of anti-austerity marches on Spain’s capital. With citizens claiming “people power,” Madrid has risen to the occasion with a participatory policy platform - and they’re building on it with a €100 million OGP commitment to open up the budget to the people. Read more about Madrid’s participatory budgeting process here.

Can we achieve the Global Goals by eating an elephant?

By Doreen Grove, Scottish Government

Scotland’s various plans of action on human rights, sustainable development, and government performance are all converging under an OGP subnational commitment. Find out how it’s going - and the steps they’ll need to take to be successful - here.