OGP Local Deep Dives
OGP Local is hosting a series of online sessions for local governments to explore five key topics that advance open government values such as transparency, accountability, responsiveness, and inclusion.
Introduction and Overview
Open data policies and practices have been core to OGP’s culture since its inception. It is the idea that data should be freely available for everyone to access, use, and re-publish as they wish. These proactive information mechanisms are an essential complement to reactive right to information laws.
They ensure that governments do not become data monopolies. In a well-functioning, democratic society citizens need to know what their government is doing. To do that, they must be able freely to access government data and information and to analyze and share that information with other citizens.
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