[open-government] OpeningParliament.org: Legislative openness comes to OGP

Mon Jul 29 20:32:25 UTC 2013

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*Legislative openness comes to OGP*

*Posted July 29, 2013 at 12:22pm by Dan
Swislow<http://www.twitter.com/danswislow>
 **to OpeningParliament.org*
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Last Wednesday in Bogotá, Colombia, Senator Hernán Larraín, Chair of the
Chilean Congress’s Bicameral Commission on Transparency, formally announced
the creation of a new thematic working group on legislative openness within
the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The group, OGP’s first major effort
to address the legislative process, will be led by Chile in partnership
with the National Democratic Institute (NDI).

The announcement came amidst the fourth meeting of *La Red Parlamentaria
Latinoamericana Pro Transparencia, Acceso a la Información Pública y
Probidad*, which brought together parliamentarians from nine Latin American
countries at the Colombian Congress to discuss advancing an agenda for open
legislatures in the region. The OGP working group aims to enable
constructive engagement between parliaments, governments and civil society
on issues of legislative openness and citizen participation in the
legislative process.

Later today, the Minister Secretary General of the Presidency of Chile,
representing Chile to OGP, will release a letter to all OGP Member
Countries inviting their participation in the group.

*Read the full post on the OpeningParliament.org blog by clicking
here.<http://bit.ly/16fmnFb>
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*Dan Swislow | *Senior Program Assistant | Governance
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
455 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20001
( +1 (202) 728-5620 | * dswislow at ndi.org | Skype: dan.swislow | Twitter:
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