The National Substantive Training workshop improved capacity of public officials to formulate OGD strategies in consultation with stakeholders and to establish an OGD community and enhanced technical capacity to develop, use and sustain OGD tools. 70 participants trained, including 43 senior and mid-level national and local government representatives, public servants, ICT experts, 5 a2i staff, and 22 representatives from civil society organizations, academia, private sector and the media. Out of 52 evaluations received, 80.7% of participants gave overall positive feedback on various aspects of training: 71% assessed clarity of training objectives and level of achieving them as “very good” or “excellent” and 80% considered training as relevant and useful.