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

Tue Aug 5 09:49:53 UTC 2014

Definitely worth being in touch with Paul Massen on this. He's been giving
some thought to ways of making the excellent IRM data more accessible and
useful - visualisations, platforms etc.

My post from May includes some links that people might want to explore too
re IRM data and analysis

http://alanhudson.info/?p=11589

best
alan

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Tim Davies <tim at timdavies.org.uk> wrote:

> 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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