Italy’s online platform OpenCoesione publishes both budgets and expenditures of European Union Cohesion Funds and Italian National Funds for territorial development to make public spending more transparent for its citizens.
Ecuador forges a path to environmental justice by ratifying and starting to implement a historic agreement to protect the environment and give democratic power to its people.
In Paraguay, newly formed Municipal Development Councils give citizens a greater say in projects that impact their local communities.
New Zealand gathers all of its laws into one user-friendly website, improving access to legal information for the public.
Platforms in Ukraine make the public procurement process more transparent and allow citizens to monitor it.
Participation from women in leadership positions in Germany was either stalling, or even falling. A new legal act, brought into effect in 2015, introduces obligations and incentives to improve gender representation in private and public leadership positions.
France implemented new open data clauses in government contracts, increasing competition between firms when applying for these contracts – eventually leading to better quality services for citizens.
By building a website that allowed citizens to understand the government budgets and report concerns, Georgia empowered its citizens to keep the government accountable.
New Zealand is helping to ensure that the government’s use of algorithms is transparent and accountable, and that communities can have confidence in how they are used to help the government make good decisions and deliver services effectively.
To deal with a justice system that was complicated, Colombia’s Ministry of Justice developed the mobile application LegalApp, providing free legal knowledge and access to its public, presented in accessible language.