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OGP in the United States

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Developing the Action Plan

  • THE CONSULTATION PROCESS
  • LEVEL OF PUBLIC INPUT

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What did the process look like?

Civil society model action plan

    • Crowdsourced ideas from nearly 20 organizations
    • More than 20 different topics

In-person and online consultations

    • Open quarterly meetings
    • Hackpad
    • Open Government Google Group

Lack of government feedback

    • No summary of comments
    • No draft action plan
    • No response to the model plan

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Ambition

  • POTENTIAL IMPACT
  • STARRED COMMITMENTS

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Starred Commitments

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    • Modernize FOIA and release nonprofit tax filings

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    • Open science

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    • Open police data

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    • Open climate data

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Implementation

    • COMPLETION FROM YEAR 1 TO YEAR 2
    • LONG-TERM TRENDS
    • PROGRESS ON COMMITMENTS BY YEAR 2

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Comparing Progress on Commitments by Year 2

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3rd US Action Plan

67%

2nd US Action Plan

81%

OECD Average

79%

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Outcomes

    • POLICE DATA INITIATIVE
    • OPEN SCIENCE
    • DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS

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Source: Police Data Initiative - https://www.policedatainitiative.org/datasets/

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Open Science

NEW REPOSITORIES AND DISCLOSURES

    • National Science Foundation
    • Department of Defense
    • National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    • Environmental Protection Agency

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Source: National Geographic - https://bit.ly/2KRNZtj

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Source: We the People - https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/

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Source: USEITI - https://www.doi.gov/eiti

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Main Takeaways

Commitments

    • More ambitious but lower rates of implementation than in the past

Co-Creation Process

    • Fell short of active collaboration
    • Lack of government feedback

Outcomes

    • Major improvements in some areas, such as policing data
    • Regressions in other areas, such as EITI

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Global Lessons for the US

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Four areas of attention

  • New co-creation guidance and “acting contrary” principles

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  • Scope and prioritization

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  • Towards spoke-and-hub governance

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  • Results-oriented commitments

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New co-creation guidelines

1. Action plan four months late. (12/31/18)

2. IAP2 “involve” level of public influence during development (“inform” during implementation)

  • A Forum exists (four times a year).
  • The Forum is multi-stakeholder
  • Reasoned response

3. Online repository with completion evidence

  • For examples in English, please look at Australia’s or Canada’s repositories.

4. No progress on implementing commitments

5. Read more here: bit.ly/2rBmU4N

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Scoping, prioritization and reasoned response

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  • Brief summary of major categories of comment

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  • Brief feedback on major categories of comment (reasons for non-incorporation, modification, and incorporation of public input)

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  • Can be standalone or integrated (see Mexico for an example of integrated)

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Governance structure

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Problem-Solution-Results-oriented

Problem-oriented

What is the problem?

  • Political
  • Social
  • Environmental
  • Economic

What change in practice (not deliverables) do you hope to achieve?

  • Access to information: Which new information will be disclosed? Or easier to access?
  • Civic participation: What decisions will citizens better be able to observe, inform, or influence? How will they better be able to influence decisions?
  • Public accountability: How will government officials be more responsive or responsible to the public for decisions and actions?

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Collective ambition areas

Fiscal transparency

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Anti corruption (beneficial ownership, Open Contracting)

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Civic space (assembly and association)

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Open policy-making

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Sustainable development

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Conclusions

  • We want your comments
  • This presentation here: goo.gl/PdKygT
  • Report here: goo.gl/mMyre1

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