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Australian Civil Society Organisations: invitation to assess OGP performance

11th October 2016 – Information, News

The Open Government Partnership, now 70 strong, has commissioned an independent organization to conduct an evaluation of its performance to date. This evaluation will reflect on the OGP experience of the past five years, help to understand its successes and failures, and refresh OGP’s strategy going forward. DPMG, a unit of the University of Southern…

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Open Data and Right to Know

4th October 2016 – Uncategorised

On the eve of the International Open Data Conference in Spain this week a reminder in this article of the inter-dependence of open data and access to information rights: The Right to Know is the plumbing underneath what has become an ecosystem focused on open government and open data, but it often gets forgotten. The…

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OGP Summit: Paris in the wintertime?

4th October 2016 – Uncategorised

From December 7-9, 2016, France will host the Open Government Partnership Global Summit in Paris. More than 3,000 attendees from the open government community are expected including heads of state, ministers from the 70 member countries, 15 subnational governments, academia, civil society, press, multilateral organisations and other thought-leaders. The Network has been urging Department of…

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The Mandarin on the the current state of play in the development of Australia’s first National Action Plan

28th September 2016 – Uncategorised

Stephen Easton in The Mandarin: Crunch time for Australia’s open government plan “A draft national action plan that will articulate how the Australian government promises to promote open government should finally emerge in the next couple of weeks, ahead of a very tight public consultation period.The finished draft is set to go to Cabinet for…

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Fifth anniversary celebration of OGP in New York next week. Will Australia stand proudly for the cause?

14th September 2016 – Uncategorised

The fifth anniversary of the foundation meeting of the Open Government Partnership will be celebrated on 20 September at a gathering in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly during Leaders Week. I’m not sure if Prime Minister Turnbull will be there at that time but presumably some ministers such as Minister…

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Interim Working Group moving along

14th September 2016 – Uncategorised

The second meeting of the Interim Working Group yesterday saw further progress in developing draft commitments proposed for inclusion in Australia’s OGP National Action Plan. Agenda and papers for the meeting have been published and minutes will be published in the next day or so. Still a way to go and a third meeting is…

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Interim Working Group gets down to business

12th September 2016 – Uncategorised

Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet has published information about the first meeting of the Interim Working Group established to assist with the development of Australia’s National Action Plan including papers distributed to participants and minutes, and an outline of the process through to completion. It was a positive meeting with government and non government…

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Interim Working Group up and running

2nd September 2016 – Uncategorised

The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet announced this week appointments to the Interim Working Group to assist in the development of Australia’s OGP National Action Plan Four of the six non government positions are filled by Network members Coghill, Szuminska, Timmins and Zirnsak. The first meeting of the group will take place in Canberra on…

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Strong interest in civil society spots on Interim Working Group

26th August 2016 – Uncategorised

Expressions of Interest in participating in the Open Government Partnership Interim Working Group established by Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet closed on Wednesday. PM&C has announced 40 applications were received. https://ogpau.govspace.gov.au/submissions-for-the-interim-working-group-are-now-closed/ To my knowledge ten members of the Network submitted nominations. There may be others in the 40- along with interested applicants who haven’t…

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Exciting time for civil society’s best – help improve our democracy

22nd August 2016 – Uncategorised

The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet last Thursday called for expressions of interest for the non government Co- Chair position and (probably) five non government member positions on the  proposed 12 person Open Government Partnership Interim Working Group. The closing date for nominations is 5pm Wednesday 23 August. A spokesperson for PM&C told The…

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