Steering Committee

Meeting of the Steering Committee
Open Government Partnership
April 16, 2012

Ulysses Guimarães Convention Center

1:00pm - 2:00pm: Welcome and Introduction by Brazil and U.S.

• Overview of Agenda and objectives
• Review and Adoption of OGP's Articles of Governance
• Other Updates Since December Meeting

2:00pm - 3:00pm: Discussion of Independent Reporting Mechanism

• Presentation of concept note and work of Criteria and Standards sub-committee to date
• Discussion

3:00pm - 3:30pm: Update on OGP institutional developments

• Review OGP budget and finances
• Update on OGP institutional hosting
• Report from the OGP Networking Mechanism

3:30pm - 3:45pm: Coffee Break

3:45pm - 4:30pm: Discussion of April 17-18, 2012 Annual Meeting

• Agenda
• Communications overview
• Role of Steering Committee members
• Review roster of new OGP countries

4:30pm - 5:00pm: Governance Discussion

• Overview of sub-committee membership and upcoming tasks
• Review SC rotation proposal

5:00pm - 6:00pm: Discussion of plans for 2012-2013

• Presentation by United Kingdom of plans for co-chairmanship
• Presentation by new CSO co-chair of priorities
• Regional outreach and country follow-up