Modernizing Public Governance (NO0033)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Norway Action Plan 2013-2015
Action Plan Cycle: 2013
Status: Inactive
Institutions
Lead Institution: The Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs
Support Institution(s): NA
Policy Areas
Capacity Building, E-GovernmentIRM Review
IRM Report: Norway End-of-Term Report 2014-2015
Starred: No
Early Results: Did Not Change
Design i
Verifiable: No
Relevant to OGP Values: Not Relevant
Implementation i
Completion: Pending IRM Review
Description
The Government will consider various measures to promote a more implementation-oriented and result-oriented administration. These measures will aim to strengthen
interaction and coordination across agencies and sectors and across administrative levels.
This will help in ensuring that central government agencies are better managed, and that
they make greater use of ICT than they do today.
IRM End of Term Status Summary
21. Modernising public governance
Commitment Text:
[…] The purpose of this initiative is to clarify objectives and priorities, clarify roles and responsibilities, reduce unnecessary reporting, and promote better leadership and more efficient central government agencies, among other ways, by means of better exploitation of ICT and by better interaction and coordination across sectors and administrative levels.
COMMITMENT DESCRIPTION
The Government will consider various measures to promote a more implementation-oriented and result-oriented administration. These measures will aim to strengthen interaction and coordination across agencies and sectors and across administrative levels. This will help in ensuring that central government agencies are better managed, and that they make greater use of ICT than they do today.
Responsible institution: Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs
Supporting institution(s): None
Start date: Not specified End date: 15 December 2013
Editorial note: The text of the commitments was abridged for formatting reasons. For the full text of the commitment, please see http://bit.ly/1QlVIja.
Policy Aim
Improvements of public services and eGovernment services have been a priority for the Norwegian government for many years, as is represented by the creation of the Directorate for Administration and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) within the Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi) in 2008.[Note 113: ”Om Difi,” Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi), accessed October 11, 2016, https://www.difi.no/om-difi. ] This commitment is vaguely worded, but seems to mirror that general ambition to improve the efficiency and impact of public governance, generally and through the use of ICT.
Status
Mid-term: Unable to tell from government and civil society responses
This commitment was vaguely worded, which made it difficult to assess its potential impact or level of completion. Better management and greater ICT use would certainly matter, and the IRM researcher recommends commitments around this topic be written in clear, measurable language in future action plans.
End-of-term: Unable to tell from government and civil society responses
The Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation (KMD) has described several initiatives conducted in 2015 that are closely related to this commitment, including the activities described in the three-year government strategy for better governance and public leadership. Activities include improving the decision-making frameworks for including evidence in decision-making processes and clarifying project and position descriptions in order to “improve leadership.”[Note 114: Program for bedre styring og ledelse i staten 2014-2017 available at https://www.regjeringen.no/globalassets/upload/kmd/apa/program_for_bedre_styring_og_ledelse_i_staten.pdf.] Given the vague wording of the commitment, the IRM researcher is unable to determine to what extent this fulfills the commitment.
Did it open government?
This commitment was entirely internal to government in that it committed government to “consider” measures to “strengthen interaction and coordination across agencies.” Given the lack of a public-facing element in the commitment, the IRM researcher was unable to find any evidence that this commitment had any meaningful impact on government openness.
Carried forward?
This commitment has not been carried forward in the Norwegian government’s third national action plan, which is available on the OGP website.[Note 115: ”Norway’s third action plan Open Government Partnership (OGP),” Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation, accessed September 4, 2016, http://www.opengovpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2001/01/Norway_2016-17_NAP.pdf.]
Commitments
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Archiving Documents
NO0054, 2019, Capacity Building
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Making Energy Statistics Available
NO0055, 2019, E-Government
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e-Access and Expansion
NO0056, 2019, Civic Space
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Open Cultural Data
NO0057, 2019, E-Government
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Digital Spatial Planning
NO0058, 2019, E-Government
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Streamline Public Procurement
NO0059, 2019, E-Government
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Preventing Corruption
NO0060, 2019, Anti-Corruption Institutions
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Beneficial Ownership Registry
NO0061, 2019, Beneficial Ownership
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User Orientation
NO0045, 2016, Capacity Building
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Electronic Public Records (OEP)
NO0046, 2016, E-Government
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Transparency Regarding Environmental Information
NO0047, 2016, E-Government
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Disclosure of Financial Data
NO0048, 2016, E-Government
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Transparency Regarding Rainforest Funds
NO0049, 2016, E-Government
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State Employees’ Ownership of Shares
NO0050, 2016, Anti-Corruption Institutions
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Promote Freedom of Expression and Independent Media
NO0051, 2016, Civic Space
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Country-By-Country Reporting
NO0052, 2016, Extractive Industries
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Register for Ultimate Beneficial Ownership
NO0053, 2016, Anti-Corruption Institutions
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Public Review and Public Consultation
NO0020, 2013, Capacity Building
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Registering and Preserving Digital Documentation Produced by Public Bodies
NO0021, 2013, E-Government
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The Norwegian Citizen Survey (Innbyggerundersøkelsen)
NO0022, 2013, Public Participation
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Whistleblowing
NO0023, 2013, Whistleblower Protections
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Strengthened Information Exchange for More Efficient Crime Prevention and Combating
NO0024, 2013, Justice
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Strengthening the Transparency of Public Authorities and Administration
NO0025, 2013, Capacity Building
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Egovernment with an End-User Focus
NO0026, 2013, E-Government
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Plain Legal Language
NO0027, 2013, Capacity Building
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Norwegian Grants Portal (MFA)
NO0028, 2013, Aid
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An International Convention or Agreement on Financial Transparency
NO0029, 2013, Private Sector
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Reducing Conflicts of Interests – Post-Employment Regulations
NO0030, 2013, Conflicts of Interest
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Centre for Integrity in the Defence Sector
NO0031, 2013, Security
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A Better Overview of Committees, Boards and Councils – More Public Access to Information and Better Opportunities for Further Use
NO0032, 2013, E-Government
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Modernizing Public Governance
NO0033, 2013, Capacity Building
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Transparency in the Management of Oil and Gas Revenues
NO0034, 2013, Extractive Industries
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Transparency in the Management of the Government Pension Fund (GPF)
NO0035, 2013, E-Government
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Transparency and Anti-Corruption Efforts
NO0036, 2013, Anti-Corruption Institutions
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The Municipal Sector
NO0037, 2013, Education
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“Simplify” (“Enkelt Og Greit”)
NO0038, 2013, E-Government
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Electronic Public Records (OEP) – (Offentlig Elektronisk Postjournal)
NO0039, 2013, E-Government
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Re-Use of Public Sector Information (PSI)
NO0040, 2013, Capacity Building
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Access to Health Data
NO0041, 2013, E-Government
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Renewal of the Government’S Website (Regjeringen.No – Government.No)
NO0042, 2013, E-Government
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Declaration of Principles for Interaction and Dialogue with NGOs
NO0043, 2013, Capacity Building
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Simplification and Digital Administration of Arrangements for NGOs
NO0044, 2013, Capacity Building
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An Open Public Sector and Inclusive Government
NO0001, 2011, Capacity Building
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Measures to Promote Gender Equality and Women’S Full Participation in Civic Life, the Private Sector, the Public Administration and Political Processes.
NO0002, 2011, Gender
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Gender Equality – Participation in the Private Sector
NO0003, 2011, Gender
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Increase Women's Representation in Local Government
NO0004, 2011, Gender
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Gender Equality Program
NO0005, 2011, Gender
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Gender Equality – Inclusion of Immigrant Women
NO0006, 2011, Gender
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Gender Equality – Combat Gender Stereotypes
NO0007, 2011, Gender
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Gender Equality – Youth Initiatives
NO0008, 2011, Gender
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Gender Equality – Combat Domestic Violence
NO0009, 2011, Gender
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Transparency in the Management of Oil and Gas Revenues / Financial Transparency
NO0010, 2011, Aid
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Transparency in the Management of Oil and Gas Revenues / Financial Transparency – Government Global Pension Fund
NO0011, 2011, Fiscal Transparency
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Transparency in the Management of Oil and Gas Revenues / Financial Transparency – Combat Tax Evasion
NO0012, 2011, Fiscal Transparency
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Transparency in the Management of Oil and Gas Revenues / Financial Transparency – Multi-National Companies
NO0013, 2011, Fiscal Transparency
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An Open Public Sector and Inclusive Government – Create Central Communication Policy
NO0014, 2011, Fiscal Transparency
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An Open Public Sector and Inclusive Government
NO0015, 2011, E-Government
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An Open Public Sector and Inclusive Government – Public Data Use
NO0016, 2011, Public Participation
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An Open Public Sector and Inclusive Government – National Statistic Publication
NO0017, 2011, Open Data
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An Open Public Sector and Inclusive Government – National Public Opinion Survey
NO0018, 2011, Records Management
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An Open Public Sector and Inclusive Government
NO0019, 2011, Public Participation