Latin America and the Open Government Partnership

FROM СOMMITMENT то ACTION The Open Government Partnership: bringing together governments and civil society organisations A RACE TO THE TOP Charting countries' participation with the OGP THE FOUNDING PARTICIPANTS Brazil Indonesia Mexico Norway Philippines South Africa United Kingdom United States ACTION PLAN SUBMITTED AND ENDORSED Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Bulgarla Canada Following a public consultation, governments develop a country action plan that elaborates concrete commitments around a set of five "grand challenges": Improving Public Services, Increasing Public Integrity, Managing Public Resources Effectively, Creating Safer Communities, Increasing Corporate Accountability. The action plan should cover an initial period of 2 years Chile Colombia Croatia Czech Republic Denmark El Salvador FYROM Dominican Republic Estonia Greece 出 Georgla Guatemala Honduras Israel Italy Jordan Kenya Latvla Lithuania Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Paraguay Peru Romania Slovak Republic South Korea Spain Sweden Tanzania Turkey Ukraine Uruguay DEVELOPING ACTION PLANS Argentina Costa Rica Finland Ghana Hungary These countries submitted letters of intent and their governments are currently in the process of developing action plans in partnership with civil society. Liberla Mongolia Panama Russia Serbla Trìnidad and Tobago 1ST SELF-ASSESSMENT DUE 1ST IRM REPORT DUE All participating governments are to publish an annual progress report. This report should assess government performance in living up to its OGP commitments. It should be made publicly available in the local language and in English. Timeframe: Approximately two months after the end of the first 12 months of action plan implementation. As a complement to the self-assessment, an independent assessment report will be written by well-respected local governance experts from each OGP participating country. This report will be shared with a small international expert committee and will also be provided to governments to offer their comments and feedback. It will also be made public. Timeframe: IRM reports will be undertaken every 12 months for participating countries. Each IRM report will be published approximately 4 months following the implementation period being assessed. The first round of reports examining action plans from founding governments will be condluded in May of 2013. LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES OGP COMMITMENTS What are countries pledging in their action plans? E-government 39 Citizen engagement 37 Open data 34 Access to information/ freedom of information 31 Sub-national governance 23 Budgets and financial planning 19 Public servants/ civil service 17 Сараcty building/training 12 Antl-corruptlon 11 Public ethics 10 WHAT IS BEING SAID ABOUT THE OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP? Share your thoughts on Twitter with @opengovpart using the hashtag #opengov Barack Obama, President, US Dilma Rousseff, President, Brazil "I very much welcome your government's recent decision to join what we've called our Open Government Partnership so that citizens can come to expect accountability and learn exactly how moneys are spent." "The OGP is about citizenship and people's involvement. It is, therefore, a project to ensure democratic modernization." Dario Wainer, Co-founder, Garage Lab, Argentina Marcia Dinora López Martínez, Secretariat of the Presidency, Honduras "Open government is an opportunity to integrate civil society and the electorate with government to solve economic and social problems." "Open government is an opportunity for govemments to work with civil society to be transparent about its finances to benefit society in general." Mary Robinson, Member of the OGP International Expert Panel, First Female President, Ireland Maria Ines De Ferrari, Executive Director, Corporacion Participa, Chile "Issues of governance can be measured, which is why I welcome the opportunity to serve: "The Open Government Partnership is a space that allows us to work for the right to access to information and participate in government, so that hopefully, we can have a more just world." a member of the as OGP's International Expert Panel. Within this role, I hope to integrate issues of human rights, gender equality and true sustainable development into the Independent Reporting Mechanism." OGP IN NUMBERS Statistics from the Open Government Partnership's first 16 months 58 Y6000 48 Number of Participating Governments Number of Twitter followers 13,000 NUMBER OF GUEST BLOGGERS Number of blog readers in 2012 120 Number of blog posts on the OGP blog 39 Number of languages spoken by OGP participating governments 8,350 2.006bn Population represented by their Governments Number of OGP YouTube YOu Tubel video views Оpen Government OGP website www.opengovpartnership.org/ OGP blog blog.opengovpartnershlp.org/ OGP Twitter twitter.com/opengovpart OGP YouTube www.youtube.com/user/OpenGovPart OGP Facebook www.facebook.com/OpenGovernmentPartnership Partnership FROM СOMMITMENT то ACTION The Open Government Partnership: bringing together governments and civil society organisations A RACE TO THE TOP Charting countries' participation with the OGP THE FOUNDING PARTICIPANTS Brazil Indonesia Mexico Norway Philippines South Africa United Kingdom United States ACTION PLAN SUBMITTED AND ENDORSED Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Bulgarla Canada Following a public consultation, governments develop a country action plan that elaborates concrete commitments around a set of five "grand challenges": Improving Public Services, Increasing Public Integrity, Managing Public Resources Effectively, Creating Safer Communities, Increasing Corporate Accountability. The action plan should cover an initial period of 2 years Chile Colombia Croatia Czech Republic Denmark El Salvador FYROM Dominican Republic Estonia Greece 出 Georgla Guatemala Honduras Israel Italy Jordan Kenya Latvla Lithuania Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Paraguay Peru Romania Slovak Republic South Korea Spain Sweden Tanzania Turkey Ukraine Uruguay DEVELOPING ACTION PLANS Argentina Costa Rica Finland Ghana Hungary These countries submitted letters of intent and their governments are currently in the process of developing action plans in partnership with civil society. Liberla Mongolia Panama Russia Serbla Trìnidad and Tobago 1ST SELF-ASSESSMENT DUE 1ST IRM REPORT DUE All participating governments are to publish an annual progress report. This report should assess government performance in living up to its OGP commitments. It should be made publicly available in the local language and in English. Timeframe: Approximately two months after the end of the first 12 months of action plan implementation. As a complement to the self-assessment, an independent assessment report will be written by well-respected local governance experts from each OGP participating country. This report will be shared with a small international expert committee and will also be provided to governments to offer their comments and feedback. It will also be made public. Timeframe: IRM reports will be undertaken every 12 months for participating countries. Each IRM report will be published approximately 4 months following the implementation period being assessed. The first round of reports examining action plans from founding governments will be condluded in May of 2013. LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES OGP COMMITMENTS What are countries pledging in their action plans? E-government 39 Citizen engagement 37 Open data 34 Access to information/ freedom of information 31 Sub-national governance 23 Budgets and financial planning 19 Public servants/ civil service 17 Сараcty building/training 12 Antl-corruptlon 11 Public ethics 10 WHAT IS BEING SAID ABOUT THE OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP? Share your thoughts on Twitter with @opengovpart using the hashtag #opengov Barack Obama, President, US Dilma Rousseff, President, Brazil "I very much welcome your government's recent decision to join what we've called our Open Government Partnership so that citizens can come to expect accountability and learn exactly how moneys are spent." "The OGP is about citizenship and people's involvement. It is, therefore, a project to ensure democratic modernization." Dario Wainer, Co-founder, Garage Lab, Argentina Marcia Dinora López Martínez, Secretariat of the Presidency, Honduras "Open government is an opportunity to integrate civil society and the electorate with government to solve economic and social problems." "Open government is an opportunity for govemments to work with civil society to be transparent about its finances to benefit society in general." Mary Robinson, Member of the OGP International Expert Panel, First Female President, Ireland Maria Ines De Ferrari, Executive Director, Corporacion Participa, Chile "Issues of governance can be measured, which is why I welcome the opportunity to serve: "The Open Government Partnership is a space that allows us to work for the right to access to information and participate in government, so that hopefully, we can have a more just world." a member of the as OGP's International Expert Panel. Within this role, I hope to integrate issues of human rights, gender equality and true sustainable development into the Independent Reporting Mechanism." OGP IN NUMBERS Statistics from the Open Government Partnership's first 16 months 58 Y6000 48 Number of Participating Governments Number of Twitter followers 13,000 NUMBER OF GUEST BLOGGERS Number of blog readers in 2012 120 Number of blog posts on the OGP blog 39 Number of languages spoken by OGP participating governments 8,350 2.006bn Population represented by their Governments Number of OGP YouTube YOu Tubel video views Оpen Government OGP website www.opengovpartnership.org/ OGP blog blog.opengovpartnershlp.org/ OGP Twitter twitter.com/opengovpart OGP YouTube www.youtube.com/user/OpenGovPart OGP Facebook www.facebook.com/OpenGovernmentPartnership Partnership