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

Sun Oct 13 17:15:11 UTC 2013

Hi Felipe,

Some translation efforts have already begun. We translated the open data
principles.

I forwarded your translation.

Regards

Immanuel
On 2013-10-13 8:45 AM, "Felipe Estefan" <felipe.estefan.g at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> Dre Diane Mercier
>>
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