[Okfn-ca] Fwd: [open-government] Invitation: Open Contracting Webinar (Oct 17)

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Sujet: 	[open-government] Invitation: Open Contracting Webinar (Oct 17)
Date : 	Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:29:13 -0400
De : 	Felipe Estefan <felipe.estefan.g at gmail.com>
Pour : 	open-government at lists.okfn.org <open-government at lists.okfn.org>, 
open-development at lists.okfn.org, sunlight-international at googlegroups.com 
<sunlight-international at googlegroups.com>
Copie à : 	Open Contracting Partnership 
<partnership at open-contracting.com>, Lindsey Marchessault 
<lmarchessault at worldbank.org>

Dear all -

On October 17th, as part of the OGP Webinar series, we will be hosting a 
webinar titled "Open Contracting: From Principles to Practice". We will 
be featuring case studies from Colombia and Liberia. The full invitation 
and the link to register can be found below.

As background to the webinar, or if you'd like to learn more about open 
contracting, you can read through the recently-released chapter in the 
Open Government Guide 
<http://www.ogphub.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Guide-to-open-government-public-contracting.pdf>. 

As always, if you have any feedback or any questions about Open 
Contracting, don't hesitate to let me know.

Hope to see you on the 17th,

Felipe

Open Government
*FELIPE ESTEFAN*

Open Government
festefan at worldbank.org <mailto:festefan at worldbank.org> 	1 (315) 420-7464 
<tel:1%20%28315%29%20420-7464>
@FelipeEstefan <http://twitter.com/FelipeEstefan>

*Open Government Partnership Webinar on*

*Open Contracting: From Principles to Practice*
*/Case studies from Colombia and Liberia/*

*Thursday, October 17, 2013
10:00 - 11:30 AM EST (14:00 GMT)*

*REGISTER for this Webinar **HERE* 
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?usp=drive_web&formkey=dENab0dQd2RIWTM2aExBQUJQLVdYZkE6MA#gid=0>

*Presenters***

*María Margarita Zuleta Gonzalez*
*(Director, Colombian National Public Contracting Agency, Colombia 
Compra Eficiente)*

*Harold Marvin Aidoo*
*(Acting Executive Director, Institute for Research and Democratic 
Development (IREDD), Liberia)*

*/and/*

*Lindsey Marchessault*
*(World Bank Institute)*

*Sponsored by the Open Government Partnership (OGP) and the World Bank 
Institute (WBI)*

*Description*

Because of their vital role in the financial health of a country and the 
lives of its citizens, there is a crucial interest in ensuring that 
public contracts are fairly awarded, get good value-for-money, and are 
well performed. Yet, public contracting is vulnerable to wastefulness, 
mismanagement, inefficiency, and corruption. Open contracting aims to 
increase disclosure and participation in all stages of public 
contracting (from planning to completion of obligations). A growing 
number of countries are enhancing disclosure with participatory options. 
Colombia and Liberia are two OGP member countries that have made 
significant progress in opening public contracts. Their experiences are 
suggesting the real potential of Open Contracting to contribute to 
sustainable public resource management and innovative performance in 
delivery of goods and services, and hence to further demonstrate the 
value of open and accountable government.

Inactive hide details for Bio for María Margarita Zuleta Gonzalez *Bio 
for María Margarita Zuleta Gonzalez*

/María Margarita Zuleta/ is the General Director of Colombia Compra 
Eficiente (National Public Procurement Agency) since it started 
operations in April 2012. Since 2012, Colombia Compra Eficiente works to 
ensure that all contracts executed by the government agencies of all 
levels (national, department and municipal levels) or by private 
entities that spend public funds on behalf of the tax payers are fully 
disclosed. SECOP is the information system run by Colombia Compra 
Eficiente where documents regarding public contracts are to be 
disclosed.  She is a lawyer, graduated from Universidad de Los Andes. 
Previously, Maria Margarita was Legal Manager at CI Prodeco, partner of 
Brigard & Urrutia, foreign associate of Shearman Sterling in New York, 
and lawyer at Acerías Paz del Río. In government, she was Director of 
the Presidential Program for Democratization, Efficiency, Transparency 
and Fight against Corruption. She was also Viceminister of Justice. She 
coauthored the book Corrupción Cerebro y Sentimientos along with 
Mauricio Rubio, Isaac de León Beltrán and Eduardo Salcedo Albarán.

Inactive hide details for Bio for Harold Marvin Aidoo *Bio for Harold 
Marvin Aidoo
*/Harold Marvin Aidoo/ is the acting Executive Director of the Institute 
for Research and Democratic Development (IREDD) a non-governmental, 
non-for-profit organization dedicated to the  promotion of socioeconomic 
justice, good governance and democracy in Liberia and in particular 
Africa in general. Harold has over eight years of experience working 
broadly on issues of governance and democratization in Liberia. Harold 
holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology and MA candidate at the 
University of Liberia. He has attended dozens of workshops and 
conferences around the world on governance and democracy and presented 
papers focusing of several topics.*
*
Inactive hide details for Bio for Lindsey Marchessault*Bio for  Lindsey 
Marchessault*
/Lindsey Marchessault/ is a Canadian lawyer and a consultant with the 
World Bank Institute Open Contracting team. She has experience working 
with clients in the extractive industries and worked for two years at 
the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes at the 
World Bank in Washington, DC. For the past year, Lindsey has been 
involved with the launch of the Open Contracting Partnership and the 
development of the Open Contracting Global Principles and Data 
Standards. She has also authored a forthcoming report aimed at 
introducing new audiences to Open Contracting and the Public Contracting 
chapter of the forthcoming Guide to Opening Government.

/OGP Webinars are sponsored by the Open Government Partnership and the 
World Bank Institute (WBI)./

*/To JOIN the session on Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 10:00 AM EST, 
please use this link to login 5 minutes before the Webinar is scheduled 
to start: /**/http://worldbankva.adobeconnect.com/ogpweb/**//*

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