6th December 2012
Back in September when the UK became lead co-chair of the Open Government Partnership they released a draft ‘co-chair vision‘. We started by gathering comments on the strategy through an online document, and through the recent Open Policy Making process with the OGP team from Cabinet Office, have input into a revised co-chair vision published…
5th December 2012
Next Thursday (13 December, 1230-1400), the UK OGP civil society network and Cabinet Office Transparency Team will be holding the second session in the series on the content of the UK’s next open government National Action Plan. The session will take place at the (newly launched) Open Data Institute and will be on the priority…
3rd December 2012
Where: The Open Data Institute When: 29 November 2012 Introduction On 15 November, members of the Cabinet Office Transparency Team and the civil society network met to scope out the areas of the UK’s next open government National Action Plan. Four areas were identified based on the UK Government’s priorities and the civil society network’s…
23rd November 2012
Over the past few weeks members of the civil society network have been working with members of the Cabinet Office Transparency Team to: agree a process for developing the UK’s next Open Government Partnership National Action Plan in partnership; and scope out the possible areas of content for the National Action Plan. The current plan,…
22nd November 2012
Update (04/12/12): This meeting has now been cancelled The next meeting of the civil society network will be held on 6 December, between 1230 and 1430, at the Open Data Institute. This meeting will be to discuss a number of process and governance issues concerning the network, including: What is / should the network be (e.g. should…
13th November 2012
At this week’s brown bag lunch meeting at the ODI we will be exploring the scope and content of the UK’s next National Action Plan with civil servants from the Cabinet Office’s Transparency team. This will build on conversations over the past couple of weeks and will help to decide what’s in and what’s out of…
29th October 2012
From this Thursday (1 November) onwards, the Open Data Institute have kindly offered us the use of their space on Thursdays of every week. This will include the free use of desks and WI-FI, and meeting rooms for (brown bag) lunch meetings. The idea is simple: to bring those working on open government across civil society…
25th October 2012
Present Simon Burall (Chair; Involve), Andrew Parsons (Public Concern at Work), Anthea Seles (International Records Management Trust), Ilaria Miller (Cabinet Office), Maurice Frankel (Campaign for Freedom of Information), Melissa Lawson (Tearfund), Sophia Oliver (Cabinet Office), Tim Hughes (Involve) Catch up Members of the civil society network reported on the process and outcomes of the 11…
11th October 2012
This network met today (11th October) at the Free Word Centre, London to explore a broad agenda of open government issues, and work towards a shared vision for open government priorities. The meeting split into two parts. The morning consisted of an introduction to, and updates on, the OGP process, with input from Charlotte Alldritt,…
26th September 2012
Today, the UK Government took on the role as lead co-chair of the Open Government Partnership, alongside the other co-chairs – the government of Indonesia, and the International Budget Partnership. To co-incide, the Government has published a list of four priorities for it’s time as lead co-chair. These can be found in full on the…