Today the UK government planned to publish its first draft of the new National Action Plan for the Open Government Partnership. The aim was to coincide with the Steering Group Meeting in London and to show the progress made so far in developing commitments to be included in the final plan in October. Due to
CSC Newsletter No. 5 by emilenemartinez17
Want to know what’s going on within the OGP? We are organising a few conference calls in the first week of March in which you can talk with the civil society Steering Committee members. The calls will provide a good way for them to share their priorities for the coming months, but are especially an
Jakarta, Indonesia – 18 February 2013 This Storify is posting key tweets and other content from the meeting (most recent at the bottom). [<a href="//storify.com/opengovpart/open-government-partnership-governance-and-leaders" target="_blank">View the story "Open Government Partnership governance and leadership committee meeting" on Storify</a>]
By Linda Frey, OGP Support Unit Executive Director On January 2nd I started as Executive Director of the Open Government Partnership Support Unit. Quite a mouthful, huh? Most of my family members still have only a vague sense of what this actually means, though I’ve been diligently practicing my elevator speech since accepting the job last
The last few months the civil society community has worked hard to design a good new process for rotation and now the time has come to nominate the best candidate CSO Steering Committee members possible! From April onwards there is space for 3 new members that will help address the specific challenges facing OGP in the
This blog first appeared on the Huffington Post website. The movement for transparency and openness in government took decisive steps forward last week. As lead co-chair of the Open Government Partnership, the UK hosted the first ministerial level meeting in Britain of this growing international initiative. But this meeting wasn’t just symbolically significant. We put
Meeting of the Members of the OGP Steering Committee The OGP Steering Committee has set out a Multilateral Engagement Framework for Multilateral and international organisations to take part in the Open Government Partnership (OGP). In order to take part, organisations need to send a letter of intent, affirming their agreement to OGP principles and the