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

Fri Oct 11 15:42:54 UTC 2013

Dear Diane -

Merci d’avoir partagé cette annonce avec votre liste.

We look forward to having many of the OKFN-CA members participate in the
webinar on October 17th.

Also, I am attaching a french version of the Open Contracting global
principles. If you don't mind us asking, we would very much appreciate
OKFN-CA's help in reviewing the translation and to assess whether, from
your understanding, it matches the spirit and the details of the English
version: www.open-contracting.org/global_principles

Any feedback you may be able to provide would be much appreciated!

All the best,

Felipe

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Diane Mercier <diane.mercier at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Inspirant!
>
>
> -------- Message original --------  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> <felipe.estefan.g at gmail.com>  Pour :
> open-government at lists.okfn.org <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><sunlight-international at googlegroups.com>  Copie
> à : Open Contracting Partnership <partnership at open-contracting.com><partnership at open-contracting.com>,
> Lindsey Marchessault <lmarchessault at worldbank.org><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
>
>    [image: Open Government]  *FELIPE ESTEFAN*
>   Open Government
> festefan at worldbank.org 1 (315) 420-7464 <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.
>
> [image: 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.
> [image: 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.*
> *
> [image: 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*<http://worldbankva.adobeconnect.com/ogpweb>
> * *
>
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> Canada
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