Taking the OGP Co-Creation Process Online – Country Examples
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Country Examples
| COUNTRY | DESCRIPTION | CO-CREATION STAGE |
| Examples of countries using online platforms for OGP action plans in 2020 | ||
| Argentina | OGP Argentina : Trello for sharing information on action planAction plans are at the core of a government’s participation in OGP. They are the product of a co-creation process in which government and civil society jointly develop commitments to open governmen... updates. | Information Updates |
| Kenya | First co-creation meeting was held over Zoom on April 2020 to discuss initiatives member institutions are undertaking for COVID-19 response as well as to start prioritizing policy areas to include in Kenya’s fourth action plan. Thirty eight participants attended the meeting. There are plans to continue the co-creation processCollaboration between government, civil society and other stakeholders (e.g., citizens, academics, private sector) is at the heart of the OGP process. Participating governments must ensure that a dive... virtually every 3 -4 weeks for the foreseeable future with the goal of submitting the Action Plan by December 2020. | Crowdsourcing Drafting |
| Lithuania | OGP Lithuania: Lithuania is holding online consultations for 2020 action plan through this portal | Crowdsourcing |
| New Zealand | Public consultation on New Zealand’s fourth action plan will commence shortly through this portal that has also been used for sharing information and soliciting input for co-creating New Zealand’s previous action plans. | Crowdsourcing Deliberation Information update |
| Uruguay | Mirador de Gobierno Abierto is a portal which informs the public of the progress of Uruguay’s 2018-20 action plan commitments | Information update |
| Examples of online participation in policymaking | ||
| Argentina | Fundación Democracia en Red runs part of the DemocracyOS software and has been used for many public consultations. | Crowdsourcing Prioritization Information update |
| Armenia | The Ministry of Justice publishes draft legal acts through https://www.e-draft.am/ which has voting, commenting and feedback features | Prioritization Deliberation Information updates |
| Chile | The Citizen Consultation of 2019 is a large-scale, non-binding consultation that aims to gauge people’s opinions on various social topics. These topics impact both national and local levels of policy. | Crowdsourcing Prioritization Deliberation |
| Estonia | Rahvakogu – People’s Assembly in Estonia . Using YourPriorities (the online platform referenced above) People’s Assembly (Rahvakogu) was launched for crowd-sourcing ideas and proposals to amend Estonia’s electoral laws, political party law, and other issues related to the future of democracy in Estonia. | Crowdsourcing Deliberation |
| Iceland | Citizens Foundation is used by Reykjavik City Council crowdsourcing ideas and letting the public vote on them. The best ones are debated every month by the City Council. You can use this platform for free, although Citizens Foundation also offers paid consultancy | Crowdsourcing Prioritization Deliberation |
| Iceland | Reykjavík’s Education Policy In 2017 the City of Reykjavík decided to crowdsource ideas to co-create the City’s educationAccountability within the public education system is key to improving outcomes and attainment, and accountability is nearly impossible without transparent policies and opportunities for participation ... policy on Better Reykjavík. This was the first time that a specific policy of any government within Iceland was crowdsourced | Crowdsourcing Prioritizing |
| Ireland & United Kingdom | Digital tools for Citizen Assemblies: This document uses as key examples the reports of the Irish Citizens’ Assembly on the Eighth Amendment — a state-facilitated exercise meant explicitly to feed back into political discussion — and the report on a Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit, which was run as a research exercise by a coalition led by UCL’s Constitution Unit. Some of the examples explored were projects with extensive administrative resources, which both allows for time spent on digitisation and the creation of raw materials (such as transcripts) to be digitised. | Information updates |
| Madrid, Spain | Decide Madrid : used to engage the public in decision-making, Decide Madrid aims to ensure 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 of government proceedings in the city of Madrid and to widen public participationGiving citizens opportunities to provide input into government decision-making leads to more effective governance, improved public service delivery, and more equitable outcomes. Technical specificatio... in Council decision-making and spending processes. | Crowdsourcing Prioritizing Deliberation Information updates |
| Paraguay | Engaging citizens in the implementation of its 2014-16 action plan , using a combination of live streaming, dashboards, and web platforms and news. | Information updates |
| Philippines | Check My School initiative is an example of enabling citizen monitoring of a specific commitmentOGP commitments are promises for reform co-created by governments and civil society and submitted as part of an action plan. Commitments typically include a description of the problem, concrete action... in the Philippines action plan. | Information updates |
| Taiwan | vTaiwan experimental e-consultation platform enables the broader public to participate in an ongoing process of problem identification | Crowdsourcing Prioritization Deliberation Information updates |
| United Kingdom | Citizen Space was used for the Deputy Prime Minister’s Northern Futures project to collect ideas on how to create a new economic hub in the North of England. The Treasury also used this tool to gather ideas for the Spending Challenge | Deliberation Information updates |
| United Kingdom | Rapid Online Deliberation on COVID-19 Technologies: A group of organisations who are collaborating to trial a rapid, online deliberation with 25-30 members of the public to talk about COVID-19 exit strategies | Deliberation |
| United States | Common Ground for Action Online Forums : Example from the U.S.-based National Issues Forum of online forums to weigh actions to solve problems | Crowdsourcing Deliberation |
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