[open-government] Public assessment of the OGP national plans

Tue Aug 5 09:43:44 UTC 2014

Hey Alberto, Igbal

Have you see the dataset that the Open Government Partnership Independent
Reporting Mechanism team are working on?

http://www.opengovpartnership.org/independent-reporting-mechanism

They are currently working on coding up the commitments made by countries,
and then sharing this data for others to analyse. Carrying out an analysis
of this data might be a good first step.

They have been tagging commitments for level of ambition, as well as theme
etc.

Because of the way the OGP works (voluntary commitments by countries,
supposed to be based on consultation with civil society in country), I'm
not sure a general ranking is possible or desirable - as countries should
be encouraged to improve their levels of ambition and their engagement with
local civil society, rather than to compete against some externally defined
set of important open government ideas.

However, it might be possible to use tools like the Open Data Index to
scrutinize open data commitments in particular - checking that all the
datasets countries commit to publish are checked for those countries that
commit to them. This sort of civil society provided evidence of meeting
commitments would potentially feed well into the Independent Reporting
Mechanism.

An alternative approach would be to take the commitments data, and try and
create a platform to allow more public engagement with the commitments,
crowdsourcing views on whether they are (a) ambitious enough; and (b) being
applied and delivered on.

All the best

Tim

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Igbal Safarov <iqbal1986 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Alberto,
>
> It is very good idea to compare and do raking between countries.
> Additionally, It is possible to develop "best practice" guideline based on
> the good experience of countries. This guideline can help the experts to
> meet and improve real situation.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> On 5 August 2014 04:41, alberto abella <alberto.abella at okfn.es> wrote:
>
>>  I've talked with Laura James and in the local coord list that it would
>> be good to assess globally all the national action plans that the different
>> countries submit to the OGP.
>>
>> It is true that some assessment is done in OGP but the results are not
>> ranked, neither clearly published. We (the coordinator of Ireland and
>> Spain) agree that our national plans were 'quite improvable' (bullshit is
>> another equivalent word to describe them but I want to be polite)
>>
>> We thought that because of the network of OKFN we could arrange such
>> public assessment and make comparisons between countries.
>>
>> What do you think.
>>
>> Alberto
>>
>>
>>
>>
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