Today, having grown to 99 members, OGP has been a laboratory for experimentation and reform, learning and accountability over the last ten years. The Partnership provides a critical resource of lessons for shaping future reforms: what has worked, what hasn’t, and what lies ahead. The time is right for an honest assessment of these trends. Some governments, which had been considered to be candidates for transition, have instead strengthened and exported authoritarian practice. It has also taken place in some of the world’s largest democracies. This has been most acute in countries once viewed as champions of democratic transition. Together, this core set of countries pledged to work to spread more open societies.ĭespite these encouraging trends, recent years have witnessed a recession in openness and democracy. Initially established by eight governments and a number of recognized civil society organizations, the new partnership reflected a time of optimism about the power of democracy, technology, and open government to change lives. The founding of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in 2011 has been key to this growth. The last several decades have seen an accelerated spread of open government and its associated concepts well beyond traditional advocates. It dates back many decades, even centuries in some places.
That governments should be transparent, participatory, and accountable to the public is not a new idea. Open government is a cornerstone of an open society–a society where voices can be heard, ideas debated, and where there is opportunity for exchange between government and its people.
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