New Co-Chair Statement – October 2018

Our priorities as co-chairsThe leadership of the Steering Committee is made up of four co-chairs who provide strategic guidance and support to advance OGP’s overarching priorities. Co-Chairs serve two-year terms beginning on ...

Open government aims to improve collaboration between governments and citizens. To support this goal, governments need to listen to their people and make themselves more accessible and accountable and by doing so, they will design better services for citizens.

We commit ourselves to a transformative, hopeful vision for open government that serves people everywhere. As co-chairs, we will focus on three priorities:

• InclusionOGP participating governments are working to create governments that truly serve all people. Commitments in this area may address persons with disabilities, women and girls, lesbian, gay, bisexual, tr... More
• Participation
• Impact

In delivering on these priorities, we will work to connect and empower people to become involved in their governments. We commit to focus particularly on marginalized or under-represented citizens.

Through our priorities, we will work to do the right things to improve trust in government worldwide. We will take action to innovate and fix these challenges by working with our OGP counterparts to gain citizens’ trust. We will begin internally, improving the OGP’s governance, operations and membership. We will work in the interest of all democracies around the world and enhance transparencyAccording to OGP’s Articles of Governance, transparency occurs when “government-held information (including on activities and decisions) is open, comprehensive, timely, freely available to the pub... More by sharing the OGP Steering Committee’s work.

We hope that bettering the OGP’s performance will help continually refine and advance open governments around the world.

Government of Canada and Nathaniel Heller
CO-CHAIR VISION FOR 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
October 2018 – September 2019