Scot Open Gov

At this Edinburgh meetup, we are going to look at the legacy options proposed for the Open Government pioneers project. Some really amazing ideas have been proposed. Let’s look at these together and make them happen. See https://opengovpioneers.miraheze.org/wiki/Mini-Summit Register at our Meetup.com page.

Local participation, creative industries, and data civics. Date: 24 September // Times: 10.00am – 4.00pm // Venue: Unit 6, Vision Building // Tickets Join us at this one-day event bringing together civic society representatives, and communities of interest to explore and workshop open datasets, data visualisation and data-driven decision making for the public good. This…

The global Open Government Partnership (OGP) are excited to invite the open government community and general public to consultations for the State of Open Government Report, OGP’s first flagship report. These consultations are your chance to be heard about priority policy areas within OGP. Conversations will take place on September 19, 20, 24 and 25.…

By Niamh Webster, Scottish Government. This article was originally posted here. We’re currently working to create a new plan for the government to commit to for the next two years. We wanted to hear from people across the country about the improvements they would like to see and hear their ideas on how the government…

Join us in Glasgow for the latest in our programme of events across the country! We’ll be discussing open government and the current work the Scottish Government is doing with the public and civil society. This is your chance to help shape the future direction of openness, transparency and participation. **Register Today** We want to…

Join us in Inverness for the latest in our programme of events across the country! We’ll be discussing open government and the current work the Scottish Government is doing with the public and civil society. This is your chance to help shape the future direction of openness, transparency and participation. **Register today** We want to…

Join us in Dundee for the latest in our programme of events across the country! We’ll be discussing open government and the current work the Scottish Government is doing with the public and civil society. This is your chance to help shape the future direction of openness, transparency and participation. **Register today** We want to…

Join us in Edinburgh for the final event of our engagement across the country! We’ll be discussing open government and the current work the Scottish Government is doing with the public and civil society. This is your chance to help shape the future direction of openness, transparency and participation. **Register Today** We want to hear…

Update on action plan development this summer – get involved! A number of small events have been held to crowdsource ideas for Scotland’s second Open Government Action Plan, and we’ve got more lined up to continue this engagement. We’re trying to reach out to different networks and people across Scotland. We are working with civil…

In 2018, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published its assessment report for Scotland’s first action plan, prepared by the independent researcher, Andy McDevitt. It covers the full action plan implementation period of January 2017 through December 2017. The IRM findings are summarized as follows: Scotland showed strong institutional participation during co creation and implementation of…