[Okfn-dk] Fwd: [ogp] The EU and OGP - sign-on statement deadline 16 June

Tue Jun 10 22:24:05 UTC 2014

Hej alle,

Paul Maassen fra Open Government Partnership (OGP) spørger, om Open
Knowledge Danmark har lyst til at være medunderskriver på et dokument der
opfordrer EU til officielt at støtte OGP-initiativet.

Nogen indvendinger imod dette? Eller kommenterer ellers?

-Christian

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: paul maassen <maassenpaul at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:33 PM
Subject: Fwd: [ogp] The EU and OGP - sign-on statement deadline 16 June
To: Christian Villum <christian.villum at okfn.org>

Dear Christian,

Did you see this e-mail? Would this be something you could consider signing
and/or can forward to other Danish organizations?

I personally think that the idea of asking the new EU leadership to step up
on transparency and accountability and use OGP as a platform to do that
seems both smart and timely. What such a partnership would look like needs
more thinking, and I am sure convincing key actors both in the EU and OGP
would ask for smart campaigning. The idea though seems logical and
appealing.

Neil Cambell organized a good panel debate on this in Dublin and most
speakers agreed that it was worth exploring. The EU ombudsman very much
hailed OGP as “most promising 21st Century global development towards
making a living reality of open government and good government.” Talking
about a challenge to live up to.

What the EU and OGP coming together would look like I don’t now.
Membership? EU as a partner supporting implementation in EU countries? OGP
as part of the EU development and neighborhood agenda? Who knows, all to be
explored by the EU and OGP. And by civil society if it comes to campaigning
for it. Denis Parfenov from Ireland made a start last year by approaching
Irish MEPs via mail and Twitter to raise the issue in Brussels.

Change always starts with a first step somebody has to make. When we talk
about the EU and OGP the civil society statement seems to be a good first
step!

Kind regards

Paul

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From: neil.campbell at opensocietyfoundations.org <
neil.campbell at opensocietyfoundations.org>
Date: 3 June 2014 10:12
Subject: [ogp] The EU and OGP - sign-on statement deadline 16 June
To: OGP Civil Society group <ogp at dgroups.org>

Dear all,

I managed to have a conversation with some of you that were present in
Dublin at the Europe regional meeting, and we all heard the European
Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly, among others, call for EU engagement with OGP. I
hope we can now move this forward.  I would like to circulate the attached
sign-on statement calling for the new EU leadership to commit to EU
engagement with and eventual participation in OGP.

The European elections were a stark reminder of the distance between the EU
institutions and the citizens they represent. The question of whether the
EU institutions are actually able to improve the lives of EU citizens
through promoting and practicing inclusive and transparent governance was
lost in much of the debate. The OGP provides a template for a radical
re-think of how the EU institutions communicate among themselves on these
issues and how they could bring themselves closer to citizens. As the new
set of leaders takes shape in Brussels over the next few months, we would
like to ensure that they have a practical option for addressing the
question of citizen participation in, and the transparency and
accountability of EU governance. The OGP may not be the full answer, but at
the very least the process, objectives and methodology of what is now a
truly global initiative will offer practical solutions.

I would like to collect responses from CSOs based in European countries (in
this instance, EU members states and states in the neighbourhood or
enlargement process). Please send your organisation's name and logo by 16
June. I will then compile the document and redistribute for your use in
advocacy towards the new EU leadership. I'm very aware that a simple
statement is a reductive way to approach such a complicated issue and there
are many detailed arguments that will follow - this is merely an initial
call to raise the issue on the policy agenda and to gauge how much support
exits.

There are also many additional steps that are required to make this happen,
these include a strategy of engagement with the OGP support unit and
steering committee, EU/OGP members states, institutions in Brussels etc,
but the first step is civil society. It won't happen unless civil society
asks for it. PLEASE SIGN ON!

I would also like to thank GONG, Access Info Europe and TI-EU for their
engagement in this initiative and their initial agreement to sign the
statement. NB that Access Info have managed to secure commitments from 165
out of 751 members of the new European Parliament to transparency and lobby
control; while the TI-EU report on the integrity of EU institutions is a
primer to this whole issue. Other orgs in Brussels are also doing great
work to open up the institutions - hopefully this initiative will add to
their efforts.

Please get in touch with any questions or comments on the statement and
process.

All best,

Neil

Neil Campbell
Head of EU Policy Development
Open Society European Policy Institute
Tel.: +32-(0)2-505 46 42 * Mobile: +32-(0)491-366-667

-----Original Message-----
From: neil.campbell at opensocietyfoundations.org [mailto:
neil.campbell at opensocietyfoundations.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 3:18 PM
To: OGP Civil Society group
Subject: [ogp] OGP regional meeting. Panel on EU-OGP: Thurs 14:30-16:30

Dear all,

Looking forward to seeing some of you at the regional meeting in Dublin
later this week. The Open Society European Policy Institute<
http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/offices-foundations/open-society-european-policy-institute>
has organised a panel to be held on Thursday 8th May from 14:30 - 16:30:
"The EU's role in promoting transparency & accountability, and engagement
with the OGP".

The EU has hovered on the margins of OGP. The aim of this discussion is to
bring together some of the complementary efforts of the EU towards open
government, and critical observations on how the EU institutions might also
improve their own transparency and accountability to European citizens. The
discussion will lead towards an assessment of whether there is potential
for the EU institutions to develop a closer relationship with the OGP, and
steps that could be taken to make that happen.

Our panelists will be:

*        Emily O'Reilly, European Ombudsman

*        Dr Mechthild Rohen, Head of Public Services unit, DG Connect,
European Commission

*        Carl Dolan, Director, Transparency International's EU office

*        Helen Darbishire, Executive Director, Access Info Europe

*        Saša Šegrt, Project Development Coordinator, GONG

For those of you also joining the Civil Society day<
http://www.opengovpartnership.org/get-involved/europe-regional-meeting/cso-day>
on Wednesday, myself and my colleague Anca Cioriciu will lead a discussion
on this issue from 17:00 to 17:30.

The gist of it: On the surface, the EU and OGP are remarkably
complementary: the EU institutions play an important role in supporting
open governance in and beyond Europe; the accession process for membership
includes important conditions for transparent and accountable governing
institutions; and the EU's own treaties require that the institutions
develop policy and laws in as open a manner as possible. Why is the EU not
a cheerleader for OGP? And what might EU membership of OGP look like in
practice? This is a timely discussion as the EU moves towards leadership
changes and parliamentary elections amid calls for enhanced accountability
of EU institutions to European citizens. OGP was not initiated for regional
bodies but as its relations with multilateral institutions show, neither is
it closed to new forms of engagement and participation. European civil
society could play the essential role of pushing EU leaders, institutions
and officials towards a better understanding and implementation of open
government.

Best,

Neil
Neil Campbell
Head of EU Policy Development

Open Society European Policy Institute<
http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/offices-foundations/open-society-european-policy-institute
>
Rue d'Idalie 9-13 * B-1050 Brussels * Belgium
Tel.: +32-(0)2-505 46 42 * Mobile: +32-(0)491-366-667
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http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/offices-foundations/open-society-european-policy-institute
>

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