Open Government Partnership Africa Regional Meeting

 The Open Government Partnership Africa Regional Meeting will take place on 29-30 May at the Serena Beach Hotel in Mombasa, Kenya. The theme of the conference is Taking OGP Forward in Africa 

The main objectives of the OGP Africa Conference are to:

1. Draw the structure that African countries will use as a guideline to engage in OGP activities
2. Share OGP project progress including challenges and solutions for achieving development
3. Identify strategies on promoting OGP and increasing commitments from Africa in 2013
4. Identify strategies to promote the African agenda within the global OGP movement
5. Promote new technologies to strengthen governance.

There will be an impressive line-up of speakers including: Robert Hunja, Manager, Open Government Practice, World Bank Institute; John Wonderlich, Policy Director, Sunlight Foundation; Samuel Kimeu, Executive Director, Transparency International Kenya and many more. If you are unable to attend the conference, it will be streamed live.

The official conference hashtag is #OpenGovAfrica and @KenyaOpenData will be live tweeting throughout. Photos and videos of the conference can be found on the Kenya Open Data and Kenya ICT Board Facebook pages.