[open-government] Stop Secret Contracts! Launch of new global campaign

Mon Mar 3 13:21:57 UTC 2014

Hi James,

The aim of the petition, along with the growing list of supporting civil
society orgs, is to build a strong call from civil society to governments.
We, and campaign partners, will be engaging at key international events
this year including the G8, G20 and OGP events to push this up the agenda,
and will be supporting national level advocacy by groups working in
countries around the world. We are coordinating closely with other
established initiatives in this area to help popularise what can sometimes
seem a bureaucratic issue.

Does that help? Feel free to ask more questions, and also to make any
suggestions as to how you think the campaign could be most effective!

All the best,

Theodora

On 27 February 2014 16:25, James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca> wrote:

> I'm in favor of stopping secret contracts, but I can't tell what this
> campaign is doing to stop them, besides signing a petition?
>
>
> On 2014-02-27, at 10:59 AM, Theodora Middleton wrote:
>
> Hi all (apologies for cross-posting :-) ),
>
> Today we have launched a new campaign, Stop Secret Contracts, calling for
> an end to secrecy in government contracts. We believe this is a crucial
> issue which goes to the heart of transparency and accountability in
> government, and we're really excited to be joined by over 30 organisations
> around the world, including the Sunlight Foundation, Transparency
> International and Global Witness.
>
> The website is here: http://StopSecretContracts.org/
> The blog post is here:
> http://blog.okfn.org/2014/02/27/stop-secret-contracts-new-global-campaign-launched/
> Image here: http://stopsecretcontracts.org/promo.png
>
> We're tweeting on #SecretContracts
>
> If you support the aims of the campaign, please sign the petition<http://StopSecretContracts.org/>!
> If you would like to get more involved, get in touch with
> contact at stopsecretcontracts.org
>
> Please do share far and wide!
>
> All the best,
>
> Theodora
>
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