Open Government Partnership Global Summit

This panel will discuss supporting the use of technology for the next stage of open government models. Panelists will highlight the two specific programs Nesta has been taking forward in this space - one on supporting organizations to use open data for social good and one developing the next cadre of digital democracy applications (D-Cent). A discussion of lessons from the Open Data Challenge Series (ODCS) will be followed by a discussion on lessons from the D-Cent programme.

This moderator-led panel discussion will introduce the concept of and implementation efforts around South Korea's "Gov 3.0," with public officials from Paraguay and Panama sharing their countries' experiences.

This multi-stakeholder panel will discuss the synergies between the data revolution and open government, particularly in achieving and monitoring sustainable development goals. A specific focus will be given to south-south-south cooperation and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data.

Love it or hate it, lobbying happens – civil society also does it and many government officials are a target. We are concerned about it because we know that lobbying impacts on decision-making in key areas of democratic life – take public health, energy, extractive industries, food security, and environment for a start! So what should we do about it? How should OGP countries regulate lobbying? What are the limits? What about questions of privacy and protection of commercial interests? How do we make decision making transparent and participatory without opening it up to wild lobbying pressures?
This panel includes the formal launch of the International Lobby Regulation Standards, which provide government and civil society alike with a framework for ensuring that the activities of lobbyists are both properly regulated and made full transparent. The International Lobby Regulation Standards have been drawn up following review of legislation worldwide and consultation with civil society, government and lobbyists themselves. As well as giving guidance to governments, the standards can also be used by civil society for benchmarking existing or draft laws and practices. Come and join the debate on lobby regulation! The session will provide a space to discuss practical steps that government and civil society can jointly take to advance transparency and integrity of lobbying activities

This session would seek to share and surface compelling examples of open data’s real-world impacts from around the world, with a particular focus on broadly applicable best practices. In particular, participants will home in on specific examples of open data creating impacts on citizen empowerment and decision making, effective and legitimate governance, economic and development opportunities, and solving societal problems. The session would include representatives of the Omidyar Network and The GovLab sharing major takeaways from the two organizations’ current collaboration on a suite of 18 in-depth case studies on open data’s impacts across the world.

The goal of this panel is to be as conversational as possible. We will start with a brief overview of Code for All concept and then the panelists will collaborate to give examples of what's possible in creating responsive government when government is able to effectively partner with members of the community. We plan to engage the audience in the conversation early and often, likely seeding some questions from the audience in advance of the panel.

Publicly accessible information on beneficial ownership is one of the most important developments in the open government agenda to date. Understanding who controls or benefits from companies is a step change in corporate transparency and fundamental to the fight against corruption. Hundreds of billions of dollars are lost to corruption in public procurement every year. This can lead to lower quality infrastructure and services, wasted tax money and decreased trust in government. Corporate vehicles, such as companies, trusts, foundations and partnerships
play a legitimate and important role in our global economy. But they can also be used to disguise the real owners of companies, making it hard for citizens and governments to “follow the money.” Transparency, open data and access to information - key tenets of open government - are essential to tackling this issue, and beneficial ownership registries can help drive a transparency revolution.

This session will foster dialogue and the exchange of innovative practices toward legislative openness, as well as the institutional challenges to achieve open parliaments. The OAS and ParlAmericas have led work on parliamentary openness in the region of the Americas, through collaborative initiatives, such as the Santiago Declaration; the first and second Inter-American Meetings of Presidents of Legislatures, Parliamentary Forums and Integration Parliaments; the Parliamentary Gathering on Legislative Transparency held on the margins of the VII Summit of the Americas; and the working group on Open Parliament at ParlAmericas' 11th Plenary Assembly. This session will make available members of parliament from five countries, inviting engagement and interaction with Latin American civil society representatives in the audience.

Open data alone cannot eliminate social privileges or guarantee that marginalized groups get an opportunity to participate in Governance processes. Building on our experience at the national and sub-national level, the conversation aims at supporting thinking around the roles that infomediaries can take to maximize pluralism.

This moderated panel will provide an overview of ONE's new Follow the Money map to highlight the real-world impact of transparency. Stanley Achonu (BudgIT) will discuss his organization's effort to use data in this regard. Michael Jarvis (World Bank) will give a short overview of the extractives visualization tool, which aims to make the oil, gas and mining sectors more transparent and easily understandable to ordinary citizen. The audience will participate in a discussion of transparency as a tool for helping ordinary citizens to hold governments accountable.