Moving Forward: Announcing the OGP Working Group Workplans

The Open Government Partnership Working Groups have been very busy since their launch at the OGP Summit in London last October. Each group has been reaching out to government and civil society participants to build a network of reformers and technical experts. They have also been hard at work developing workplans to connect open government experts and accelerate peer learning across 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. The workplans outline in practical terms the peer learning and exchange activities for the five working groups: Open DataBy opening up data and making it sharable and reusable, governments can enable informed debate, better decision making, and the development of innovative new services. Technical specifications: Polici..., Fiscal Openness, Access to Information, Openness in Extractives, and Legislative Openness.

Led by a capable pair of government and civil society anchors, the Working Groups provide a safe space for participants to exchange experiences, tools, and lessons in important areas of open government. They provide a practical platform for connecting experts working on similar open government challenges across countries. Our goal is to support the creation and implementation of more ambitious action plans by learning from each other and sharing expertise through the Working Groups.

OGP was founded in large part on the recognition that good ideas come from everywhere. The Working Groups provide the space to share those ideas and we welcome the participation of the wider open government community. Please review the draft workplans below and getting back to us with your feedback or questions. We also encourage you to participate in the planned activities and events outlined in the workplans, starting with the upcoming regional meetings in Asia and Europe. To join a Working Group, contact the Support Unit (abhinav.bahl@globalintegrity.org) and the appropriate co-anchors below:

Open Data Working Group (ODWG):

World Wide Web Foundation (josema@webfoundation.org)

Govt. of Canada (stephen.walker@tbs-sct.gc.ca)

Access the draft ODWG workplan here

Fiscal Openness Working Group (FOWG):

Global Initiative on Fiscal Transparency (skhagram@scalingimpact.net)

Govt. of Brazil

Govt. of Philippines.

Access the draft FOWG workplan here

Access to Information Working Group (ATIWG):

Carter Center (lneuman@emory.edu)

Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection (tania.sanchez@ifai.org.mx)

Access the draft ATIWG workplan here

Openness in Extractives Working Group (OEWG):

Revenue Watch Institute (skaimal@revenuewatch.org)

Govt. of Ghana.

Access the draft OEWG workplan here

Legislative Openness Working Group (LOWG):

National Democratic Institute (dswislow@ndi.org)

Congress of Chile (jpolmedo@oej.cl)

Access the LOWG workplan here

Stay tuned for Working Group activities and events. We look forward to your participation.