Scot Open Gov

I met up with Paul Nelis, Development Manager at the Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC), to get his thoughts on participatory budgeting (PB) in Scotland and what more can be done to ensure PB becomes the new norm. Should PB feature in a future open government action plan and if so, what should the focus…

We’re an interesting bunch of people spread right across Scottish civil society, so it’s about time we found out a bit more about each other. Who loves Oasis or hates Parma Violets won’t open government, but through OpenGov Encounters we’ll also find out what each other do, our reasons for getting involved in the network…

We invite you to comment on the Independent Reporting Mechanism’s 2017 Preliminary Review for Scotland’s OGP action plan. The two-week public comment period will close on 30 November 2017. In 2016, OGP started a pilot program for subnational participants. The program consists of 15 subnational governments who submitted action plans and signed onto the Subnational Declaration at the…

Earlier this month, I caught up with Matthew Rice, Director at Open Rights Group (ORG) Scotland, to find out a little more about the development of ORG in Scotland and to hear his thoughts on our movement for more open government.  Open Rights Group Scotland – tell us more! Open Rights Group are a grassroots campaigning…

[This process has now ended] The documents below make up the UK’s mid-term self assessment report for its current Open Government National Action Plan 2016-18. This includes the report produced by the Cabinet Office covering the UK Government’s commitments, as well as the commitments from each of the devolved administrations. These documents will be available…

A few months back I blogged some reflections on my first few months in the network. I asked you to influence our work in the following months, and through individual meetings, network workshops and profiles, you have! Whilst a growing membership bodes well for the future of Scotland’s Open Government Network and any future open government action…

Scotland’s Open Government Network in partnership with CommonSpace would like to invite you to join us at a roundtable on Wednesday 29th November from 10am – 1pm at Hayweight House in Edinburgh, bringing journalists and the Network together on the broad theme of institutional transparency in Scotland. Joining us for the meeting will be representatives from…

Last week I attended the Civil Society Global Leaders Workshop in The Hague, a meeting of 21 civil society representatives from across the world. Led by the Open Government Partnership (OGP) and hosted by Hivos, we spent three days interacting with civil society members of the OGP Steering Committee and the Civil Society Engagement team;…

The UK Open Government Pioneers Project aims to raise understanding and awareness of the UN Sustainable Development Goals amongst citizens and decision makers and to encourage the use open government approaches to progress the Goals. The project is formally linked to the International Open Government Partnership. We are inviting bidders to deliver the independent evaluation of…

  Commitment 1: Open contracting discussion – opportunity to provide input Scottish Procurement recently published it’s Open Contracting Strategy as part of their commitments to the Scottish National Action Plan and they are keen to hear what you think. A meeting has been set up to provide a chance for Scottish Procurement to provide more…