Open Government in 2020
As we look ahead to the upcoming steering committee meetings in Mexico City the week of April 20th, we’ll be discussing a number of long-term strategic challenges and opportunities facing OGP. Among them: can we continue to diversify the open government movement and plug it into equally important global initiatives around environmental sustainability and the post-2015 development framework? Is it time to develop ways for cities and sub-nationalRecognizing that much of what impacts people’s daily lives occurs at the local level, many OGP countries are working to open up lower levels of government by creating commitments focused on subnatio... governments to participate in OGP? Are we mature enough to move beyond technology tools as the primary way we conceive of open government?
I recently had a chance to share some of my own thoughts on these questions at the city of Austin, Texas’ 2015 open government symposium. I’d warmly welcome feedback and critiques of these arguments in the comments below.
I would like to spend a few minutes sharing some ideas on where we might expect the open government movement to be in 2020. What might it look like five years from now? Will it simply be more of the same, something radically different from how we conceive of it today, or a diminished fad that we’ll look back on chuckling, “I can’t believe that was a thing back in 2015! ”Let me dive in and offer four things to watch for in open government in the next five years.
- Is open government one movement or several?
- It’s the cities, stupid
- Open government requires an open internet
- Making open government work for everyone
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