Building the Agenda for the 2016 OGP Global Summit: Co-creation and deliberation

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From December 7-9 this year, France will host the 4th OGP Global Summit in Paris. This is the one time that the OGP community from around the world has the chance to descend upon the same city to explore, debate and agree on how we can push the boundaries of open government.

A co-creation process has been put in motion to shape the agenda for the Summit. A call for proposals was open for three months from May 20 – July 20, with anyone and everyone able to submit their ideas. By opening up this process, we hope that the agenda will be demand-driven and as relevant to the community as possible.

During the three months, close to 700 proposals were submitted – more than ever for an OGP Global Summit. The task of sifting and sorting the proposals is more challenging than we could have ever imagined. The proposals came from a diverse set of people from around the world, and were grouped into the following tracks:

• Climate and sustainable development
• TransparencyAccording to OGP’s Articles of Governance, transparency occurs when “government-held information (including on activities and decisions) is open, comprehensive, timely, freely available to the pub... More, accountability, and the fight against corruption
• Digital and development
• Civic tech and participatory tools
• 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... and open resources
• Public innovation
• Open government for cities
• Open parliaments
• Access to Information
• Fundamental liberties and human rightsAn essential part of open government includes protecting the sacred freedoms and rights of all citizens, including the most vulnerable groups, and holding those who violate human rights accountable. T...
• Regional focus and Francophonie
• Implementation of open government

A week after the call closed, the editorial committee convened at NUMA, a start-up incubator in the heart of Paris. The committee is made up of a representatives of the French government, French civil society, civil society members of the OGP Steering CommitteeThe Steering Committee is OGP’s executive decision-making body. Its role is to develop, promote and safeguard OGP’s values, principles and interests; establish OGP’s core ideas, policies, and ru..., and the OGP Support UnitThe OGP Support Unit is a small, permanent group of staff that work closely with the Steering Committee and the Independent Reporting Mechanism to advance the goals of the Open Government Partnership..... Such a composition, in line with the process followed at all OGP events, is important so that the Summit can be truly co-owned and represents that interests of our diverse, global community.

The Program Committee spent an entire day deliberating the fine details of the proposals and assessing against the published criteria. Public voting was used as an indicator of public interest in the topic and the proposal, and does not have a bearing on whether a proposal gets chosen in the final agenda. We strived for diversity in both the issues and the participants, and spent hours debating the best fit for so many challenging and creative ideas. The Editorial Committee will continue this process to review and refine the agenda over the next month.

Those who submitted must be asking – what’s next?

Everyone who proposed a session will be informed about the outcome by mid-September. The chosen sessions are planned to be publically announced on September 20 at an event celebrating the five year anniversary of OGP in New York City, on the margins of the UN General Assembly.

We expect this to be the most exciting Summit agenda to date and look forward to engaging and productive conversations this December!

The Editorial Committee is made of a group of people with a broad range of experience and expertise, from both government and civil society, the OGP Steering Committee and the OGP Support Unit. The Committee is composed of the following:

Amelie Banzet, Etalab @AmelieBanzet

Tonu Basu, OGP Support Unit @TonuBasu

Mathilde Bras, Etalab @Mathilde_Bras

Pauline Carmona, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs @CarmonaPauline

Helen Darbishire, Access Info Europe and OGP Steering Committee @helen_access

Laurent Dutheil, Office of the Prime Minister

Paula Forteza, Etalab @PaulaForteza

Dylan Gelard, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Marie Heuzé, Etalab

Boris Jamet-Fournier, Office of the Prime Minister, @boris_tweets

Benjamin Jean, Open Law  @mben_vvl

Ismaël Le Mouël, HelloAsso @ismaellemouel

Laure Lucchesi, Etalab @laurelucchesi

Nathalie Martin, Wikimédia France @NMWFr

David Martinon, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France @david_martinon

Clémence Pène, Paris City @ClemencePene

Joe Powell, OGP Support Unit @josephpowell

Emmanuel Raviart, Etalab

Mark Robinson, WRI and OGP Steering Committee @markrWRI

Martin Tisne, Transparency and Accountability Initiative and OGP Steering Committee @martintisne

Helen Turek, OGP Support Unit @helen_turek