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Newsletter November 12, 2014
*Celebrating OGP champions in the Americas*
In one week, the Americas Open Government Community will gather in
San Jose, Costa Rica, to talk, learn, debate and work together during OGP’s
Americas Regional Meeting. We will start out on November 17 with a civil
society unconference, followed by a two-day event with over 40 breakout
sessions, workshops, panels, book presentations, plenaries, and a data
expedition.
#OGPSanJosé is OGP's third regional event in the Americas and is organized
by the government and civil society of Costa Rica; the government of
Mexico; Hivos Costa Rica; and the OGP Support Unit. OGP currently includes
17 participant countries from the Americas region that are each committed
to making open government reforms in close coordination with civil society.
The meeting comes at an important moment as 70% of the region’s countries
have presented new national action plans in the past 12 months. The
remaining are due to do so in the following year. There will be an
opportunity to join country-focused sessions on each of the 17
participants, where the emphasis will be on learning from each other to
help generate a ‘race to the top’ in the region.
Our overall goal is to recognize and celebrate open government reformers
from the public sector and civil society, including the implementers who
are making OGP commitments happen on the ground. We hope both events will
provide open government champions from the region with space to highlight
good practices and successful initiatives, discuss the challenges faced,
and establish support and peer exchange regional mechanisms.
Early on in the organization process, the planning committee (composed of
government and civil society representatives, and for the first time,
citizens unaffiliated to organized civil society) decided that in true OGP
fashion, the event’s agenda would be completely crowsourced. The end result
is a Regional Meeting co-constructed with our community that addresses
their main concerns and requests.
Civil society representatives will have a whole day to reflect on advocacy
opportunities during the Civil Society Day’s unconference. We are working
with Social-TIC, Hivos Costa Rica and Costa Rican civil society to ensure
an event as successful and inclusive as last month’s AbreLatam
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Government OGP points of contact often express an interest in having a
similar gathering aimed specifically at public servants; so during November
17 we will also host our first ever OGP Point of Contact camp.
*Read full article here
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*Anticipating the Americas meeting we feature a post on research capturing
preliminary findings of OGP participation in Latin America. It provides an
initial synopsis of some of the general trends that emerge after analysing
some of the Latin American IRM reports.*
*OGP in Latin America: Opportunities for Advancement in Open
Government*
*By Jesse Franzblau *
Latin America boasts the highest proportion of OGP participating countries,
with 17 member countries committed to promoting official transparency. And
they have been successful: The first round of National Action Plans (NAP)
submitted by 14 of the countries led to a combined 328 open government
initiatives or activities.
With most of the regional members developing or implementing their second
NAP, now is an important time to reflect on lessons learned from recent
experiences and explore new ways to empower civic engagement through the
OGP process.
This assessment is part of a larger effort to develop global comparative
research on the smartness and ambition of OGP commitments, and to identify
opportunities for civil society to promote more aspirational open
government agendas.
Newly available data collections allow for a comparative examination of the
commonalities and differences between OGP member countries. Such analysis
helps identify model commitments and develop recommendations to improve
action plans.
The available data include information pulled from the 48 assessment
reports produced by the OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) on the
development and implementation of the 14 national action plans from Latin
America. The IRM reports provide technical recommendations for improvements
and are an important source of information to monitor the progress that has
been made in fulfilling open government commitments. (See full article
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for more on the public databases).
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*Faces of Open Government*
*Nicolás Dassen *is Modernization of the State Senior
Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank
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(IDB).
*How does open government make a difference in people's lives?*
The difference is made by improving the quality of public services, making
governments more effective, efficient and open. As a vision, we have to
build a model of open society where relationships between all actors will
contribute toward the development of a democratic space, based on trust,
openness, integrity, and collaboration.
*Describe one OGP commitment that the IDB is proud to support in Latin
America?*
First, we are very proud of having supported Trinidad & Tobago to draft the
first OGP Action Plan. Second, the Bank is working with Uruguay to
implement innovative solutions for the improvement of public services with
citizens´ participation. The project is divided in three phases: 1) Call
for proposals through the group Facebook Dateidea2014 where citizens
submitted 79 proposals containing a problem or challenge to be fixed with
technology and better information; 2) Hackathon with 20 groups designing
solutions to the proposals received and 3) Sustainability: through a
competitive process, during 2015 public agencies and civil society groups
will compete for funds to develop the necessary technology to implement the
best solutions designed at the prior phases.
*How are you working to overcome challenges in opening up government?*
The IDB strategy follows a three-tier approach that combines technical
advisory, financial resources, and knowledge sharing among LAC countries
for: (1) designing and monitoring OG policies and action plans; (2)
strengthening countries´ capacities to effectively implement OG solutions
in the areas of public services, integrity and civil society participation;
and (3) promoting south-south and extra regional cooperation and policy
dialogue.
*What can we expect from the upcoming OGP Regional Meeting in Costa Rica*?
I would expect a strong pledge from governments to implement more
significant commitments to improve people’s daily life during this upcoming
second cycle of Action Plans. I also expect to ... *Continue reading here*
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Latest news on OGP
*OGP wins 'Commitment to Development' Award*
OGP is honored to receive the Commitment to Development *'Ideas in
Action'* Award
from the Center for Global Development (CGD). Read OGP Executive Director
Linda Frey's remarks, and watch a recorded version of the ceremony here
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*Call for Research Proposals *
The OGP Civil Society Engagement team published a call for research
proposals to analyse and describe the different forms of interaction that
have taken place between governments and civil society in OGP participating
countries. Details are available on the OGP Civil Society Hub
<http://opengovpartnership.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b25f647af089f5f52485a663d&id=a1ae399c19&e=3e9f6634fa>.
Deadline is November 23, 2014.
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*New OGP Action Plans*
Over the last two weeks, Canada
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submitted their second National Action Plans, while
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submitted
their first.
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*OGP statement on IRM Researcher in Montenegro*
The OGP Steering Committee is deeply concerned about recent personal
attacks on the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) Researcher in
Montenegro. Read the full statement here
<http://opengovpartnership.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b25f647af089f5f52485a663d&id=0b4049e6fa&e=3e9f6634fa>.
The buzz on Open Government
*Three things to watch for in OGP*
Jed Miller from Transparency and Accountability Initiative (T/AI) writes a
blog on 'Three things to watch for in OGP': 1) Can OGP walk its talk; 2)
Can data make a difference; and 3) Are we learning anything? Read more here
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*Should corruption be a more central concept to OGP?*
Although recognized in general as an elementary part of advancing more open
government, "the word 'corruption' has been relegated to a small corner of
the word cloud in the assessments and cataloguing of the national action
plans" says Transparency International's Zoe Reiter in this blog post
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*'Players or Spectators: Observations on CSO Participation in the OGP'*
US civil society coalition Open The Government
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in
partnership with Kenyan CSO representative Al Kags present an insightful
analysis on the role of civil society in OGP. Read the full report that
features three key recommendations for improving CSO participation here
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*Boost for climate finance transparency in Asia*
The Philippines, as one of the countries most
vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change, introduced a landmark
climate finance tagging system as a way to promote greater transparency and
accountability of public spending on climate-related activities. See the
details on Devex's
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website.
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A new chapter was added to the *Open Government Guide* - on Privacy and
Data Protection
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providing for a framework for integrating privacy considerations into open
government plans
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programmes.
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The Gov Lab Digest
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a curated selection of major developments, findings, and views related to
how we improve people's lives by changing how we govern, on a weekly basis.
*For Your Calendar*
*November 17, 2014: *OGP Civil Society Day prior to Americas Meeting. San
José, Costa Rica.
*November 18-19, 2014*: OGP Regional Meeting Americas
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San José, Costa Rica.
*November 27-28, 2014: *Workshop Introducing OGP, Port Moresby, Papua New
Guinea.
*Webinars*
*November 12, 2014, 10-11 AM EST *
(Webinar in Spanish): Uso de plataformas electrónicas de tramitación de
solicitudes de información en América Latina. More information and
registration here
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