Registration open: 2016 OGP Global Summit

From December 7-9, 2016, France will host the Open Government PartnershipThe Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a multi-stakeholder initiative focused on improving government transparency, ensuring opportunities for citizen participation in public matters, and strengthen... More Global Summit in Paris. Every two years representatives of government, academia, civil society, multilateral organizations, press, and others meet at the OGP Global Summit to exchange experiences, best practices, and progress on open government initiatives and implementation.

Registration is now open for the 2016 OGP Global Summit.

The OGP 2016 Global Summit will focus on building new alliances between governments, civil society, and other reformers. The objectives of the Summit are to promote exchanges, inspire reformers to raise their level of ambition, and for all stakeholders to collectively push the open government agenda forward to address new challenges and ultimately improve the lives of citizens around the world. We  expect to bring together more than 3,000 attendees of the most relevant stakeholders in the open government community, including heads of state, ministers from the 70 member countries, 15 subnational governments, academia, civil society, press, multilateral organization and other thought-leaders. The provisional program is available here and will be updated as the agenda is finalized.

If you are working towards strengthening open government principles we invite you to participate in the 2016 OGP Global Summit!

The deadline to register is October 31. If you are requesting travel support, we encourage you to register as soon as possible.  Criteria for determining participation and funding from the OGP Support Unit for civil society actors can be found here in English or here in Spanish. 

Answers to frequently asked questions can be found here.

For general inquiries about the summit, please contact: summit@opengovpartnership.org.

For questions about sessions and proposals, please contact: sessions@opengovpartnership.org.

For media requests please contact: communications@opengovpartnership.org