Join the OGP Webinar to Introduce the Legislative Openness Working Group
The Open Government PartnershipThe Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a multi-stakeholder initiative focused on improving government transparency, ensuring opportunities for citizen participation in public matters, and strengthen... More, National Democratic Institute, and the Congress of Chile are pleased to announce a webinar to introduce the Legislative Openness Working Group on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 9:00 am EST. We hope you can join us. Please see the details below.
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Date & Time Tuesday, September 10, 2013 09:00 AM – 10:30 AM EST | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM, Santiago | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM GMT
Description As countries continue to implement their Action Plans and develop new commitments, there has been an increasing interest in exploring commitments that open the legislative process within the executive and legislative branches. In response to this, the Open Government Partnership is launching the Legislative Openness Working Group (LOWG). The LOWG is intended to deepen the exchange of knowledge across governments, parliaments, civil society and international institutions on the opportunities and challenges associated with legislative openness. The LOWG will be coordinated in partnership with the government and Congress of Chile and the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and aims to:
- Provide a forum for peer-to-peer sharing of good practices, tools, experiences, and innovative use of ICTs through in-person and virtual meetings of the working group;
- Develop tools and resources to be shared within the broader OGP community for addressing issues of legislative openness in a country’s 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...;
- Identify particular issues within the field of legislative openness for research and sharing of expertise, which might be spearheaded by an individual member of the working group (e.g., the use of “e-petition websites”, efforts to engage citizens using web-based platforms for public comment, good practice regarding the 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 of legislative data, etc.);
- Identify technical assistance and partnership opportunities on legislative openness; and
- Increase the focus of OGP governments and parliaments on legislative openness.
This webinar will seek to introduce the LOWG, and the potential of closer collaboration among governments, parliaments and civil society for improving open government. Presenters from Chile and NDI will introduce their work on this subject, including a presentation of Chile’s new legislative commitments as part of their OGP Action Plan, and NDI’s support for http://www.OpeningParliament.org.
Presented by Juan Pablo Olmedo, Bicameral Commission on Transparency of the Congress of Chile; Scott Hubli, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI); Dan Swislow, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
JOIN the Webinar here (login 5 minutes before the scheduled time): http://worldbankva.adobeconnect.com/ogpweb/ The OGP Working Groups and webinar series encourage peer learning and knowledge sharing on critical open government issues among civil society, government, and private sectorGovernments are working to open private sector practices as well — including through beneficial ownership transparency, open contracting, and regulating environmental standards. Technical specificat... More participants. OGP Webinars are sponsored by the World Bank Institute (WBI).