UK Open Gov

Date: Thursday, 13 April 2016 from 15:00 to 17:30 Venue: Broadacre House, Market Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6HQ Introduction On 13 April 2016, the UK Open Government Network hosted a workshop in Newcastle to discuss progress on the 2016-18 National Action Plan and ideas for future commitments. Open contracting Tim explained that the OGN…

Date: Thursday, 7 April 2016 from 15:00 to 17:30 Venue: Impact Hub Birmingham, 58 Oxford Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5NR Introduction On 7 April 2016, the UK Open Government Network and Cabinet Office co-hosted a workshop in Birmingham to discuss progress on the 2016-18 National Action Plan and ideas for future commitments. Freedom of Information Interest in whether the…

UPDATE: The deadline for contributing to drafting/editing the submission has been extended to 20 May.  Get involved here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A-3ckBTAAIWSwgpSTSD3IaPVWniLoeSd_eNJgrXgDc4/edit?usp=sharing  Introduction The government launched a consultation just before Easter on plans to privatise the Land Registry.  While the consultation document is at pains to stress that the register itself will remain in public ownership, there is significant concern…

On the 20th April 2016 21 people from Scottish civil society groups and government met in Edinburgh to discuss the draft Scottish commitments for the National Action Plan and look at how we could expand and strengthen the Scottish Network. Lucy McTernan (Deputy Chief Executive SCVO), Tim Hughes (UK Open Government Civil Society Network Co-ordinator…

The OGP Global Summit 2016 will take place in Paris, France on December 7, 8 and 9. Provisional programme Register now

The OGP Global Summit 2016 has been officially announced and a Call for Proposals to help form the agenda launched: https://en.ogpsummit.org/osem/conference/ogp-summit The OGP Global Summit 2016 will take place in Paris, France on December 7, 8 and 9. The agenda for the Global Summit will be based on an open call for proposals from the entire open…

The Chancellor, George Osborne, has responded to the Open Government Network’s letter proposing three commitments on tax transparency for inclusion in the UK’s 2016-18 Open Government Partnership National Action Plan: Proposal for HM Treasury commitments to be included in the UK Open Government Partnership National Action Plan Thank you for your letter of 30 March, setting out three proposals…

From stationary supplies to major infrastructure projects like roads, schools and hospitals governments across the world are increasingly looking to the private sector to supply goods and services to their citizens. With the global value of this sort of outsourced procurement by the public sector now exceeding US$9.5 trillion each year (15% of global GDP)[i]…

On 15 April the United Kingdom published its first Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) report, after being an EITI candidate country since 2014. The report provides, for the first time, and for calendar year 2014, a detailed public breakdown of taxes, licence fees and other payments made to the UK government by 71 named oil, gas,…

Something wonderful is happening. In our increasingly uncertain, fragile and repressive world, Scotland is joining with fourteen localities across the globe to light the way forward for openness, transparency and accountability. We have been selected as part of the International Subnational Government Programme. Each ‘subnational’ pioneer involved is not a full member country, but does have a…