NI Open Gov
The Northern Ireland Open Government Network is a loose alliance of individual citizens and representatives of voluntary/community organisations aiming to engage in dialogue with the NI Executive to campaign for a more open form of government. We want government to be more transparent, participatory and accountable to the people it serves.
We aim to use the international Open Government Partnership as a vehicle to achieve this objective and are making links with similar civil society networks in the UK and Ireland.
26th April 2017
This webinar is the first in a series from the UK-wide Open Government Pioneers Project which will provide an introduction to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Craig Matasick from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will explore the instrumental value of Open Government principles and methods in the implementation of the UN…
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24th April 2017
Purpose: Improve political literacy: understand how party politics work; explore the party manifesto making process and develop understanding and awareness of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Through a series of participatory democracy games, participants from Special Schools will: Create your own political party – devise the name, slogan & key messages Produce your political party…
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11th April 2017
QUB postgraduate students, Northern Ireland Assembly clerking staff and representatives from civic society organisations are invited to join an interactive seminar examining the implications of open policy making and exploring creative ways forward for open policy making in Northern Ireland. The event will run from 2pm – 5pm on Friday 12th May 2017. Short presentations…
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10th April 2017
The April 2017 issue of the NIOGN e-Bulletin can be viewed here.
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6th March 2017
This is the livestreaming page and video archive for the open government pioneers UK livestreams and webcasts. From February 2018, livestreams and recordings are available from the Opengovpioneers Youtube page Older videos are archived at this link: Open video list in new window
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17th February 2017
Hosted by the Northern Ireland Open Government Network, this fun event will explore the state of democracy post Trump and Brexit. It will take the form of a show trial that puts Democracy in the dock to consider whether it’s guilty of failing people in the UK, the US and across the world. As part…
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15th February 2017
(via ODI Belfast) Well, it doesn’t seem all that long since we were frantically crowdsourcing live elections data for our ElectionsNI project. In fact, it’s only been ten months, but we’re back to another round of elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. This time round it’ll be every bit as interesting, perhaps more so as people…
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13th February 2017
In response to our letter about transparency on political party donations, we received the following response from Michelle O’Neill on behalf of Sinn Féin: “Sinn Féin is committed to ensuring the highest levels of transparency in the funding of political parties whether that is in the form of donations or loans. Our commitment is to…
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27th January 2017
In response to our letter about transparency on political party donations Steven Agnew, leader of the Green Party said: “Openness and transparency are key principles of the Green Party. We have raised this issue numerous times in the past and pledge to continue to do so. Our party is the only party in Northern Ireland who published…
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27th January 2017
In response to our letter on donor transparency, the leader of the Alliance Party Naomi Long sent us the following letter addressed to the Secretary of State, James Brokenshire: “FAO: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Dear James, Thank you for your recent letter seeking the views of the Alliance Party in respect of the…
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