Why Germany needs the OGP
http://blog.opengovpartnership.org/2013/02/from-opengovdata-to-govdata-why-germany-needs-the-ogp-and-the-ogp-needs-germany/

Josh Goldstein on governance innovations
http://jkgoldst.tumblr.com/post/42657101643/two-new-governance-ideas

Guinea’s mining contracts now online, very cool
http://www.contratsminiersguinee.org/#documents

More good noises re G8 and transparency
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/16/george-osborne-on-his-tax-reform-agenda

Great piece on governance and development by my colleague David Sasaki
http://davidsasaki.name/2013/02/this-week-in-transparency-corruption-development-and-causality/#comment-203088

Re-reading oldies but goodies:

Dave Eaves on what he is doing at Code for America
http://eaves.ca/2011/01/17/what-im-doing-at-code-for-america/

Clay Johnson on how to run large hackathons
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2010/01/19/how-manage-large-volunteer-hackathons/