From: "James McKinney" <jamespetermckin...@gmail.com> Date: Sep 12, 2017 11:10 PM Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] Apply to Canada's OGP multi-stakeholder forum To: "civicaccess-disc...@civicaccess.ca" <civicaccess-disc...@civicaccess.ca > Cc:
*Un message en français suivra sous peu.* Want to get more engaged in open government? Now is your chance. The call for nominations is now open to join the inaugural Canadian Multi-stakeholder forum on open government. Every two years, Canada and the more than 75 other members of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) are required to develop action plans outlining their openness and other commitments over the upcoming two years. Canada’s first three plans contained 46 commitments aimed at improving access to information, civic participation and public accountability. The OGP requires members to engage in public consultation in preparing and implementing its plan. There have been issues with the scope and nature of these consultations in Canada. To address this, over the past year and a half, a group of civil society organizations successfully lobbied for the creation of a Multi-stakeholder forum, a collaborative platform through which government and civil society, as partners, can co-create the action plan and then oversee implementation. The Forum will serve to strengthen dialogue between the Canadian government and civil society in support of a more open and transparent government. Canada will assume its seat on the OGP Steering Committee this month, making it even more important for robust action by civil society to hold government to account. We hope many of you will respond to our call for nominations, described at http://www.opengovdialogue.ca/en/apply-multistakeholder-forum.html The deadline for nominations is October 9. Please feel free to inform others you know about this opportunity. Alternately, if you would like to apply to the Selection committee responsible for deciding the members of the Multi-stakeholder forum, visit http://www.opengovdialogue.ca/en/apply-selection-committee.html (deadline September 24). If you have any questions, please respond here and we will get back to you. Best regards, and good luck, James McKinney, on behalf of the interim steering committee of the Canadian Open Government Civil Society Network _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list civicaccess-disc...@civicaccess.ca http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss ―― View topic http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/2sehPQXMxQ4HVrYMNSieJ1 Leave group mailto:newswire@groups.dowire.org?subject=Unsubscribe
