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

Wed Aug 6 15:24:21 UTC 2014

I think that apart from the raw databases that IRM provides Alan has
done most of the job, to gather a summarize data about the commitments.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tFdLFTvo5cHlVJ3rjM17YYMgXc6UFrPrgJsN_dgMUMc/edit#gid=1090828196

Don't you think that further treatment (visualization) on these data
(kind of rank) would be an incentive for best practice sharing between
countries?

I know that Tim has much more experience than me (possibly Alan and
Igbal you too) but it seemed to me a good idea ;-D

Alberto

On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 05:49 -0400, Alan Hudson wrote:
> 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
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> 
> 
> 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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