News from Romania – CSOs participating on the draft of action plans

Soros Foundation Romania has been involved in the drafting of the 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... for Romania since December 2011, organizing the first meeting on the subject. An informal coalition of NGOs active in the fields of 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, good governance and free access to public sector information has been created in order to monitor the drafting and implementation of the action plan, as well as the respect of 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... principles. The Ministry of JusticeTo address barriers that prevent citizens from having their justice needs met, OGP participating governments are working to expand transparency, accountability, and inclusion into all systems of justi..., the institution responsible with the drafting of the action plan, has organized a series of meetings since the beginning of 2012, bringing together the civil society and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society and the General Secretariat of the Government. The commitments made by the ministries concern mostly e-governance and not so much open data. A draft of the action plan was made available for the civil society input until March 19th.