Creating OGP’s Future Together: Shape the Partnership’s New Strategy

When the Open Government Partnership was founded in 2011, many of those involved said there was magic in the air. OGP created a pathway forward that built on the optimism many felt about the future, with advances on transparency and public participation in policy-making and the promise of new technologies. OGP was a new platform, with an innovative approach that fit the moment.

Today, we face a new moment. As OGP enters its second decade, it has grown in many ways that exceeded our founders’ expectations. But as our movement has grown and shown pockets of results that the OGP community can be proud of, so too have authoritarian and other forces pulling in the direction of closed governments. The successes are not yet adding up in changing the culture of governments.

There is a need and an opportunity for us to meet this moment, applying lessons learned in our first decade.  To ensure that the Partnership is fit for purpose for now and for the future.  Meeting this challenge will take a reinvigorated OGP. As when OGP was founded, what that looks like, must include a dialogue where all ideas are on the table, where good ideas can come from anyone and everywhere.

That is why OGP is calling on its community of reformers to step up and actively participate in developing a new strategy of OGP for 2023 -2028.  A new strategy that invests our energy, experience and talents into the places that matter the most, and into the areas that provide the most support for all those bravely pursuing work in pursuit of OGP’s mission to promote transparent, participatory, inclusive and accountable governance. This is your invitation to join us.