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New Co-Chair Statement – October 2018

Our priorities as co-chairs

Open government aims to improve collaboration between governments and citizens. To support this goal, governments need to listen to their people and make themselves more accessible and accountable and by doing so, they will design better services for citizens.

We commit ourselves to a transformative, hopeful vision for open government that serves people everywhere. As co-chairs, we will focus on three priorities:

  • Inclusion
  • Participation
  • Impact

In delivering on these priorities, we will work to connect and empower people to become involved in their governments. We commit to focus particularly on marginalized or under-represented citizens.

Through our priorities, we will work to do the right things to improve trust in government worldwide. We will take action to innovate and fix these challenges by working with our OGP counterparts to gain citizens’ trust. We will begin internally, improving the OGP’s governance, operations and membership. We will work in the interest of all democracies around the world and enhance transparency by sharing the OGP Steering Committee’s work.

We hope that bettering the OGP’s performance will help continually refine and advance open governments around the world.

Government of Canada and Nathaniel Heller
CO-CHAIR VISION FOR THE OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP
October 2018 – September 2019

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