The OGP is an interesting beast. Launched in September 2011 with forceful leadership by the Obama administration, it is, essentially, an effort by governments and civil society to create a new incentive structure to promote transparency, fight corruption and empower citizens. The initiative’s goal is to create a system of incentives that might induce governments to be more aggressive in tackling these issues.
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The goal of the open data initiative is to motivate governments to make public information freely available and easily accessible online. The benefits of open data are economic, through the identification of new business opportunities, and also social, through increased transparency and accountability.
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The “Open Government Partnership”, which was announced by presidents Obama and Rousseff a year ago and currently includes 46 countries, encourages the governments of all these countries to greater openness, transparency, the involvement of citizens and the strengthening of civil society in general.
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Uganda is not best known as a testbed for new ideas in governance. But research there by Jakob Svensson at the University of Stockholm and colleagues suggested that giving people health-care performance data and helping them organise to submit complaints cut the death rate in under-fives by a third. Publishing data on school budgets reduced the misuse of funds and increased enrolment.
Whether dewy-eyed or hard-edged, examples abound of the benefits of open government—the idea that citizens should be able see what the state is up to. Estonians track which bureaucrats have looked at their file. Indians scrutinise officials’ salaries painted on village walls. Russians help redraft laws. Norwegians examine how much tax the oil industry pays. Many see openness as a cure for corruption and incompetence in public administration. The problem is how to turn the fan base into an effective lobby.
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