Open Government Partnership Africa Regional Meeting
The Open Government Partnership Africa Regional Meeting will take place on 29-30 May at the Serena Beach Hotel in Mombasa, Kenya. The theme of the conference is Taking OGP Forward in Africa
The main objectives of the OGP Africa Conference are to:
- Draw the structure that African countries will use as a guideline to engage in OGP activities
- Share OGP project progress including challenges and solutions for achieving development
- Identify strategies on promoting OGP and increasing commitments from Africa in 2013
- Identify strategies to promote the African agenda within the global OGP movement
- Promote new technologies to strengthen governance.
There will be an impressive line-up of speakers including: Robert Hunja, Manager, Open Government Practice, World Bank Institute; John Wonderlich, Policy Director, Sunlight Foundation; Samuel Kimeu, Executive Director, Transparency International Kenya and many more. If you are unable to attend the conference, it will be streamed live.
The official conference hashtag is #OpenGovAfrica and @KenyaOpenData will be live tweeting throughout. Photos and videos of the conference can be found on the Kenya Open Data and Kenya ICT Board Facebook pages.