Open Government Partnership - US National Action Plan

Making the US Government More Open and Accountable

The government released its second National Action Plan in December. OpenTheGovernment.org is helping to coordinate civil society organization's efforts to make sure the government meets its commitments, and evaluate how well the government executes the plan. To help us figure out how to create better opportunities to allow people to be involved in the project, please fill out this SURVEY.

Take a look at civil society's model National Action Plan here.

See the US government's commitments in the first NAP, the open government community's work, and our recommendations at OpenGovPartners and MakeOpenGovernmentWork.

See the first US National Action Plan here.

04/25/2013

Statement: New US National Action Plan Initiatives

The US will address four new openness issues as part of its 2014-2015 National Action Plan, honoring its promise to make the second Plan a “living document.” The new commitments largely build on the government’s new and existing data and technology initiatives. The government’s commitment to increase transparency in spending now includes the administration’s efforts to implement the DATA Act.

09/24/2014

Updated Civil Society NAP Evaluation Timeline

Here are the key dates for the evaluation project for the next several months, during which civil society groups will complete the second evaluation and begin drafting stretch goals.

09/24/2014

OpenTheGovernment.org to Host Fellow from President Obama’s Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders

OpenTheGovernment.org is pleased to announce that it will host Al Kags, a 2014 Mandela Washington Fellow from Kenya participating in the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders in August and September 2014. He was recognized as a New Generation African Leader (2013).

08/07/2014

Civil Society Groups Issue Progress Report on 2nd US National Action Plan

According to the first civil society progress report on the implementation of the United States’ Second National Action Plan, the United States government appears to be on-course to meet the majority of its commitments six months into the implementation period. This report draws on the expertise and experiences of a wide range of civil society groups engaging on the commitments and features their knowledge of the Administration's efforts to meaningfully implement its commitments and to collaborate effectively with civil society.

06/19/2014

The Second Open Government National Action Plan, Six Months In

In the coming days, OTG and several partners and allies will publish an overview of the US government’s progress implementing the second National Action Plan (NAP). As you might remember, the government promised to take certain steps on a number of issues in the NAP, including making federal spending more transparent, freeing government data, modernizing the Freedom of Information Act, and more.

06/10/2014

Open Government Working Group Meeting Recap: May 14, 2014

Members of civil society are invited to attend meetings of the interagency open government working group on a quarterly basis. Our notes on the content of the meeting are below.

05/16/2014

Open Government Partnership Updates

The Open Government Partnership is an international platform that requires member countries to develop national action plans to make progress on open government initiatives. Government officials must collaborate with civil society organizations (CSO) to develop and implement the plans.

04/01/2014

OGP 2014 and 2015: Evaluation and Analysis Timeline

To ensure momentum and meaningful implementation over the next two years, OTG has tweaked our evaluation approach and proposes to do smaller “check-ins” every six months on the progress of implementation and civil society engagement with government leads.

We are in the process of creating teams of individuals interested in providing feedback on and evaluating the implementation of specific commitments. In 2015, teams will work together, in coordination with OTG, to put together an evaluation similar to the first CSO evaluation.

Please contact apaulson[at]openthegovernment.org if you would like to be a member of a team.

The schedule for these check-ins and the final evaluation is below, including the questions that will guide the narrative report.

03/27/2014

Commitment Analysis: Expert Networking Platforms

The following was written by Lucas Cioffi, Co-Founder of Bark!Best Inc

In the December release of the US government's Second Open Government Action Plan I was pleasantly surprised to read that the ExpertNet concept continues to evolve, even though progress has been sporadic since it was first announced in 2010.

02/21/2014