Czech Republic End-of-Term Report 2016-2018 – For Public Comment

In 2019, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM)The Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) is OGP’s accountability arm and the main means of tracking progress in participating countries. The IRM provides independent, evidence-based, and objective ... published the end of term report for the Czech Republic’s third 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.... The report covers the full action plan implementation period of July 2016 to August 2018.

In the Czech Republic, the IRM researcher Vera Rihackova Pachta’s findings are summarized below:

“Implementation of the Czech Republic’s third action plan saw significant progress in 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..., a long-term priority of the country. The next action plan could benefit from improved formulation of the commitments with focus on measurability of milestones and relevanceAccording to the OGP Articles of Governance, OGP commitments should include a clear open government lens. Specifically, they should advance at least one of the OGP values: transparency, citizen partic... to OGP values, as well as from a more efficient multistakeholder approach.”

And in Czech:

“Provádění třetího akčního plánu České republiky přineslo značný pokrok v oblasti otevřených dat, což je dlouhodobá priorita země. Příští akční plány by mohly těžit z lepšího formulování závazků, a to se zaměřením na měřitelnost milníků a jejich relevanci k hodnotám Partnerství pro otevřené vládnutí (OGP), jakož i na účinnější přístup k mnohostrannému fóru.”

The version of the report for public comment is available in English and in Czech here. The two-week public comment period closed 8 August 2019.