#OpenGovWeek: #PAGOF celebrates Open Government Week!
Inclusion objective: increase and diversify partners
This year, the theme of Open Gov Week was inclusion, meaning increasing the number and diversity of partners taking part in open gov events and initiatives.
During a week, citizens, civil society and government members of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) consequently organised seminars, hackathons, public debates, webinars and communications on open data sets. The objective was to invite at least one new partner to join them in their projects for Open Government Week.
This year's #OpenGovWeek has been a great moment for #opengov, with over 500 events happening in more than 50 countries around the world - from insightful conversations on gender to webinars on inclusion. Thank you for strengthening democracies everywhere and look forward to pic.twitter.com/tA4xP7qKB7
— Open Gov Partnership (@opengovpart) 16 mars 2019
#PAGOF and OpenGovWeek
#PAGOF – Open Government Support Program in Francophone Africa – took part in Open Government Week by contributing to the conference “Open Government & Access to Information”, organised by the OECD on 13 March in Rabat.
This conference provided a forum for exchanges between OECD countries, African countries and countries in the North Africa/Middle East Region on the success factors for the establishment of more open administrations and better public services.
It thereby provided the opportunity to share the experiences of #PAGOF partner countries – Côte d’Ivoire, Tunisia and Burkina Faso – in their initiatives to give greater access to information, and to attest to the support provided by the project in this field.
Interventions focused on:
• Open government as a driver of inclusion (Tunisia, #PAGOF-CFI/Expertise France)
• The role of access to information in promoting transparency (Côte d’Ivoire)
• The media’s role in open government (#PAGOF-CFI/EF, Tunisia)
• Civil society participation in the open government process (#PAGOF-CFI/EF, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso)
Side events were also organised by the project partners:
• Tunisia: seminar on open data and seminar on the Open Government Partnership;
• Tunisia: creation of the “OGP Award” for people and national and international institutions who have supported the open government process in Tunisia;
• France/Etalab: support session on open source and open data in the context of year 3 of the Entrepreneurs in the General Interest programme.