As modern informational technologies develop and public demand on them increases, state authorities, local self-government bodies and executive bodies all over the world have to use them in their work and communication with the public, what increases the quality of administrative decisions

Ukrainian leading non-governmental and expert organizations call on the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to urgently register in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a submission on appointment of new CEC members. In autumn 2015, parliamentary factions and groups of MPs submitted their nominees to membership of the CEC. On 16 November 2015, Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine has ruled that inaction of the President of Ukraine, particularly a failure to appoint new members of the CEC, is ill...

It is important and urgent for Ukraine to intensify the preparation of parliamentary election law. The country needs rotations in political elite to secure efficiency of the Verkhovna Rada, authorized to find a solution for the certain highly important social issues. Although the open-list proportional representation system has already been openly discussed for a while by politicians and experts, it hasn't been introduced by the legislation.

Civil Network OPORA has initiated and is monitoring the realization of Work Plan for Implementation of the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness, which was presented in Parliament on 5 February 2016 The organization is realizing a number of projects, aimed to increase the transparency and openness of parliamentary processes and activities of MPs.

Civil Network OPORA has researched the ways to increase transparency of VRU committees, particularly publication of information about their activities on their websites. Thus, we have analyzed the current situation, determined key issues in activities of parliamentary committees, and suggested solutions for the existing problems. The research takes into consideration the recommendations included in the Work Plan for implementation of the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness, approved by a de...

Civil Network OPORA has translated a manual “Seven Steps To Open State, City, or Provincial Data Successfully”, with permission of the Open Data Lab Jakarta. The manual is developed for active citizens and civic associations willing to convince the government to open data in formats, which would allow to use them for advocacy and community development purposes.

On 11 March 2016, representatives of Civil Network OPORA met the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Hroisman to discuss the issues related to transparency and openness of the Parliament and its separate institutions, as well as development and introduction of the Open Data Portal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Based on the meeting results, Volodymyr Hroisman charged the Parliament's Apparatus to resolve the certain problems in communication between OPORA and the Parliament...

Election campaigning in early Kryvyi Rih mayoral election is quiet competitive on its final stage. 11 of 15 mayoral candidates have been actively campaigning and communicating with the voters. Thus, the voters in Kryvyi Rih could make personal opinion about the alternatives available in early mayoral election.