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When Budget Transparency Becomes the Language of Democracy — Public Oversight Alliance Shares at the 2025 Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit: Using Technology to Implement Budget Oversight
As democratic backsliding continues around the world, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) has become a crucial platform connecting governments and civil society. Since its founding in 2011, OGP has...
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CCW Appoints María Baron, Global Executive Director of Directorio Legislativo, as Advisor at the 2025 OGP Summit
LEVERAGING OGP LEADERSHIP TO STRENGTHEN TAIWAN’S ROLE IN THE GLOBAL OPEN GOVERNMENT MOVEMENT During the 2025 Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit, CITIZEN CONGRESS WATCH (CCW) officially presente...
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Reject Turning Budgets into Tools for Political Retaliation!Reject Turning Budgets into Tools for Political Retaliation!
DON’T ARBITRARILY SLASH OR FREEZE LIFE-SAVING DISASTER RELIEF FUNDS — REJECT TURNING BUDGETS INTO TOOLS FOR POLITICAL RETALIATION! END THE SIX MAJOR BUDGET REVIEW ABUSES — DON’T LET THE RIGHTS OF CIT...
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CCW Successfully Exports Taiwan’s Democratic Experience: Establishes the Asia Parliamentary Transparency Index with Nine Countries and Launches a Regional Survey
FOURTEEN CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS FROM NINE COUNTRIES GATHERED IN TOKYO, JAPAN, FOR THE ASIA PARLIAMENTARY TRANSPARENCY INDEX (APTI) WORKSHOP. SEATED IN THE FRONT ROW (FROM RIGHT TO LEFT): PROF. HERLIN CH...
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📢 A New Chapter for Democratic Asia! CCW and Verité Research Sign Memorandum of Cooperation 🤝
We are proud to announce that on July 3rd, 2025, Citizen Congress Watch (Taiwan) and the renowned Sri Lankan think tank Verité Research officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Taipei!...
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Citizen Congress Watch Elects New Board; Professor Tung-ru Jeffery Shieh Becomes Chairperson
CITIZEN CONGRESS WATCH ELECTS NEW BOARD; PROFESSOR TUNG-RU JEFFERY SHIEH BECOMES CHAIRPERSON DEEPENING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND EXPANDING INTERNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC NETWORKS Citizen Congress Watch (CCW) co...
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Civic Participation, Strengthening and resilience The Taiwanese-Thai Parliamentary Monitoring Organization Partnership
11/27 (Wednesday) Representatives of the Citizen Congress Watch (Taiwan), WeVis (Thailand), Lente (Philippines), the NDI (USA) visit Representatives to the Thai House of Representatives in the Nationa...
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The U.S. Presidential Election is About to Begin! What Do Citizen Congress Watch 's International Interns Think?
According to TIME, this year (2024), at least 65 countries and 4.2 billion citizens around the world will participate in voting, which accounts for approximately 49% of the global population, making i...
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Corrupt Politicians Undermine Taiwan's Democracy! CCP Proxy Politicians, Maliciously Increasing the Difficulty of Recalls!
THE RIGHT OF RECALL IS ONE OF THE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION RIGHTS GUARANTEED BY THE CONSTITUTION. However, just after the recall of Keelung Mayor Hsieh Kuo-liang (謝國樑), Kuomintang (KMT, 國民黨) legi...
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【A statement regarding the controversy surrounding false declarations】
【A statement regarding the controversy surrounding false declarations】 CCW calls for the revision of the Political Donations Law, and for candidates to self-report their income and expenditures. R...
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How to avoid concerns that the Legislative Yuan will expand their powers through the right of consent to personnel under the framework of Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances? Symposium
The controversy around the Law Governing the Legislative Yuan’s Power continues to grow. Yesterday on August 6, the Constitutional Court examined six major controversial topics regarding to (State of...
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Confiscating Recalls Violates Democracy! Shame on Legislators for Maliciously Raising the Difficulty of Recalls, Daring to Amend the Law against the Flow of Public Opinion!
THE RIGHT TO RECALL IS ONE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOR CITIZENS TO PARTICIPATE IN POLITICS. In the past, the high-threshold recall law was successfully amended in 2016 to lower the threshold and...
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Thanking the International Interns
United States, who chose to intern at CCW. In this four month internship period, these students not only assisted in the collection of materials for legislator evaluation and essay translation, but al...
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Meeting with International Organization IDEA
On Tuesday May 21st, the director of the Asia Pacific Region, Leena Rikkilä Tamang, from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, IDEA, visited CCW. Both parties discussed t...
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“Looking Back on Five Years of an Open Parliament
In 2012, Taiwan Zero Hour Government Group, g0v.tw, began forming Asia’s largest hacker group, calling for “code to change society”. This weekend, g0v summit 2024 was held before the presidential inau...
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