Open Government Partnership

This page provides a platform to learn about the Open Government Partnership and monitor the United States' participation. It is part of the Sunlight-curated Transparency Hub, an Open Congress page with lots more awesome resources to help you engage in informed government oversight.

= OGP Launch =

Overview
"On September 20th, as world leaders gather in New York for the opening of the United Nations 66th General Assembly, the Open Government Partnership will formally launch with a series of high-level meetings highlighting the transformative nature of open governance. Events will include day-long multi-stakeholder discussion, 'The Power of Open,' that brings together governments, civil society, industry leaders, academics and the media for a series of panels and networking events focused on the role of openness in improving responsiveness, fostering accountability, creating efficiencies, promoting innovation and growth, fighting corruption, improving performance, and capturing dispersed knowledge in support of smarter policies. You can view the most current version of the 'The Power of Open' agenda at the bottom of the page. There will also be a separate high-level OGP Launch event that afternoon, where the eight OGP Steering Committee governments will deliver their OGP action plans, sign a declaration of principles and welcome a new group of countries into the effort. This event will also be live streamed separately from the Power of Open Event at the following address: www.whitehouse.gov/live."

Resources

 * Open Government Declaration
 * Participating Countries
 * About the Launch

Sunlight's Voice

 * Preparing for the US National Action Plan - John Wonderlich, Sept. 16, 2011
 * Two Suggestions for the US National Action Plan - John Wonderlich, Aug. 31, 2011

= USA National Action Plan =

The National Action Plan for the United States of America was released on September 20, 2011. The plan details a number of commitments the United States has made to encouraging open government and transparency. It builds on but does not replace the Open Government Initative as stated in the President's Memoradum on Transparency and Open Government. A list of US ongoing efforts and new stated commitments included in the plan are listed below.

Efforts to Date

 * Open Government Directive and Agency Plans - Specifically, OGD required agencies to take steps and establish goals to achieve greater openness and transparency (ie. Open Government Plans)
 * Data Availability - Specifically, the Data.gov platfornm with over 390,000 agency data sets
 * Disclosure to Increase Accountability and to Promote Informed Consumer Choice - Specifically, government wide guidance issued by OMB on June 18, 2010 promoting disclosure
 * Data Communities to Spark Breakthroughs for National Priorities - Specifically, the Strategy for American Innovation, Data.gov, and agency competitions
 * Enforecment and Compliance Data - Specifically, the president's Regulatory Compliance Memo
 * Reviewing Existing Agency Rules - Specifically, Executive Order 13563 requiring agencies to review their existing rules and create plans to save time and money
 * Government Transparency - Specifically, posting visitor records, staff financial disclosures, salaries, and ethics waivers on the White House website for the first time and by reversing prior limits on access to presidential records. Also, stimulus spending transparency.
 * Freedom of Information - Specifically, January 2009 memo on FOIA, DOJ FOIA dashboard

1. Promote Public Participation in Government

 * Launch the "We the People" Petition Platform
 * Open Source "We the People"
 * Develop Best Practices and Metrics for Public Participation

2. Modernize Management of Government Records

 * Reform Records Management Policies and Practices Across the Executive Branch

3. Continue to Improve Freedom of Information Act Administration

 * Professionalize FOIA Administration
 * Harness the Power of Technology - Specifically, use technology to make the FOIA process more efficient

4. Declassify National Security Information

 * Lead a Multi-Agency Effort - Specifically, work to declassify records in which more than one agency has an interest, and move to decrease the backlog of 400 million pages at the Archives

5. Support and Improve Agency Implementation of Open Government Plans

 * Monitor Agency Implementation of Plans

6. Strengthen and Expand Whistleblower Protections for Government Personnel

 * Advocate for Legislation to Reform and Expand Whistleblower Protections
 * Explore Utilization of Executive Branch Authority to Implement Reforms if Congress is Unwilling to Act

7. Enhance Enforcement of Regulations Through Further Disclosure of Compliance Information

 * Provide Enforcement and Compliance Data Online

8. Increase Transparency of Legal Entities Formed in the U.S.

 * Advocate for Legislation Requiring Meaningful Disclosure - Specifically, ''advocate for legislation that will require the disclosure of meaningful beneficial ownership information for  corporations at the time of company formation. ''

1. Implement Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

 * Implement the EITI to Ensure that Taxpayers Are Receiving Every Dollar Due for Extraction of our Natural Resources
 * Work in Partnership with Industry and Citizens to Build on Recent Progress

2. Increase Transparency in Spending By Applying Lessons from the Recovery Act to All Federal Spending

 * Provide Strategic Direction to Increase Transparency - Specifically, within six months of its establishment, the Government Accountability &amp; Transparency Board (GATB) will submit a report to the President recommending concrete steps that can be taken to achieve the goals of Executive Order 13576 

3. Increase Transparency of Foreign Assistance

 * Release and Implement Governmentwide Reporting Requirements for Foreign Aid

4. Create a More Effective and Responsive Government – Performance.gov

 * Improve Government Performance and Accountability - Specifically, continue to improve Performance.gov so that it meets the requirements of the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act

1. Expand Public Participation in the Development of Regulations

 * Overhaul the Public Participation Interface on Regulations.gov - Specifically, ''revamp public  commenting mechanisms, search functions, user interfaces, and other major features to help the public  find, follow, and participate in Federal rulemaking ''

2. Use Data.gov as a Platform to Spur Innovation

 * Contribute Data.gov as a Platform - Specifically, promote "Data.gov-in-a-Box," the open source version of Data.gov and India.gov.in 
 * Foster Communities on Data.gov - Specifically, work to launch new communities in education, research and development, and public safety in the next year 

3. Encourage Communication between Government Officials and Citizen-Experts

 * Launch ExpertNet

4. Reform Government Websites
Building on Executive Order 1371 (April 27, 2011)


 * Begin an Online National Dialogue With the American Public
 * Update Governmentwide Policies for Websites - Specifically, reform the seven-year-old policy that governs the management, look and feel, and structure of Federal Government websites 

5. Publish Data to Help Consumers and Scientists
Building on OMB's guidance to Federal agencies on "smart disclosure"


 * Promote Smart Disclosure - Specifically, ''agencies and departments will work over the next year to  ensure the timely release of complex information in standardized, machine-readable formats that enable  consumers to make informed decisions in numerous domains ''
 * Publish Guidelines on Scientific Data - Specifically, develop Federal guidelines to promote the preservation, accessibility, and interoperability of scientific digital data produced through unclassified research supported wholly or in part by funding from the Federal science agencies 

6. Promote Innovation Through International Collaboration

 * Launch International Space Apps Competition

= United Kingdom National Action Plan =

The United Kingdom's National Action Plan was also released at the Open Government Partnership Launch on September 20th.

Efforts to Date

 * Two open letters from Prime Minister David Cameron to his Cabinet which:

1. Directed government departments and agencies to ensure that any information published includes underlying data in an open standardized format The establishment of the Public Sector Transparency Board

2. Announced commitments to releasing data that would drive the improvement of public services, in particular: health, education, criminal justice, transport and government financial information.


 * Established the Public Sector Transparency Board (which published the Public Data Principles, which provide behavioral guidance for public bodies on how they need to do business)
 * Established Data.gov.uk (datasets in excess of 6,000)
 * Creation of Open Government Licence, a licensing model which facilitates the use and reuse of a broad range of public sector information
 * E-Petitions (launch of a new site that gives all citizens the power to influence government policy... anyone can create an e-petition which will be eligible for debate in the House of Commons if it gets at least 100,000 signatures)
 * Conducted an independent review of the impact of transparency on privacy (published on September 13, 2011)

Commitment: Open Data Consultation
Six levers for presenting opportunities for change came out of the Open Data Consultation published on August 4, 2011. These commitments are open for review and subject to change until October 2011.

Lever 1: Right to Data
No milestones.


 * New power of independent organizations to secure the release of public datasets in a suitable format, quality, and regularity of publication
 * Disincentives for public bodies and servants who withold data that should've been released
 * Time limits for FOIA refusal appeals
 * Changed procurement rules so that government data is stored in IT systems which minimize barriers to publishing data online
 * Higher cost cap for FOI data held within IT systems procured after July 2012
 * Mandating a phased introduction of "Public by Default" delivered through IT systems and accompanying policies

Lever 2: Setting Standards
Milestones: The UK Government Licensing Framework, which was published on 1 August 2011.


 * formalising, through a Code of Practice or opt-in process, the Public Data Principles articulated by the Public Sector Transparency Board;
 * making clear the minimum that citizens can expect on publication and quality of data. This will include compliance with the Public Data Principles;
 * ensuring a line of continuous improvement for public service providers in achieving the highest ratings for their published data when compared against the Five Star Rating for Open Data
 * setting out how citizens can challenge where there is failure in the process (although we expect the public will rarely need to revert to this because data will be proactively published);
 * having in place an Open Data compliance monitoring process which outlines how, when and where public service providers should report their progress; establishing an obligation to consider and, if appropriate, act on user feedback. This will be the case even where it has been collected independently of the public body or public service provider;
 * making clear that, with very narrow restrictions, licences must cover free, commercial re-use with public service providers not normally selling data. We will build on the successful Open Government Licence (OGL), which makes re-use of Crown Copyright and Crown Database material free for commercial and non-commercial purposes, to create one or more licences which will be prescribed for public bodies where they are making datasets available for re-use. In most cases, the expectation will be that this licence will be the OGL;
 * merge information asset registers, publication schemes and other data lists over time into a single data inventory, alongside which would sit the ‘unlocking service’ that provides for citizens and business to make request for datasets not currently published or planned to be published; encourage continuous improvement by adoption of recommended publication formats appropriate to the context;
 * set consistent expectations of the appropriate quality of meta-data; and
 * for standardised data co-ordinated across government, set the definitions of the data to be provided and their context.

Lever 3: Corporate and Personal Responsibility
Milestones: Sector specific Transparency Boards are being established, as set out in the Prime Minister's letter of 7 July 2011.


 * introducing a corporate responsibility at Board level to ensure that the right to data is being met (for the organisation and all service providers in the public, private and third sectors) based on the Caldicott Guardian model ;
 * strengthening the role and broadening the membership of the Public Sector Transparency Board chaired by the Minister for Cabinet Office;
 * bringing the Sector Transparency Board model to other parts of the public sector which hold datasets of greatest value. These will bring input from experts to support and challenge government in making more data public. These boards could ensure that data publication is prioritised to deliver the maximum benefit; and
 * reviewing the existing governance and regulatory model for public sector information in government.

Lever 4: Collecting and Publishing the Right Data
Milestones: A pilot inventory is being created as part of the work on a Public Data Corporation and scheduled for end 2011.


 * establishing a framework for public service providers to have common, consistent and transparent data inventories outlining what datasets are held, and whether they are open or not, using standards set by central government. Inventories would need to be built in a modular way, over time, and should begin with high priority data;
 * developing a clear methodology to support intelligent inventories that are prioritised by value;
 * ensuring a clear process to support a reduction in collections of ‘unnecessary data’, which maximises opportunities to streamline the volume of data we collect, and ensures resources are focused on collecting essential data; and
 * developing data.gov.uk and identifying other digital channels to support users in finding and accessing relevant high quality data and easy to use tools and applications.
 * establishing a framework for public service providers to have common, consistent and transparent data inventories outlining what datasets are held, and whether they are open or not, using standards set by central government. Inventories would need to be built in a modular way, over time, and should begin with high priority data;
 * developing a clear methodology to support intelligent inventories that are prioritised by value;
 * ensuring a clear process to support a reduction in collections of ‘unnecessary data’, which maximises opportunities to streamline the volume of data we collect, and ensures resources are focused on collecting essential data; and
 * developing data.gov.uk and identifying other digital channels to support users in finding and accessing relevant high quality data and easy to use tools and applications.

Lever 5: Maximize the Opening up of Data
No milestones.


 * routinely publishing evidence and databases behind policy statements in the way that currently happens around Budget statements;
 * routine publication of the data underlying surveys at the same time as the survey analysis is published;and
 * examining ways for improving the use of existing published data for policy and research purposes.
 * routinely publishing evidence and databases behind policy statements in the way that currently happens around Budget statements;
 * routine publication of the data underlying surveys at the same time as the survey analysis is published; and
 * examining ways for improving the use of existing published data for policy and research purposes.

Lever 6: Stimulating the Market for Innovative Use of Open Data
No milestones.


 * Public service providers are to report each year on how they are building collaborative relationships with the user community, including the commercial sector, which promote use of data.

Commitment: Overseas development aid transparency and accountability

 * spend up to 5% of budget support (as additional funds) on strengthening local accountability to support progress against related OGP goals
 * publish aid information from all government departments who spend overseas development assistance (ODA) in line with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standards

Commitment: UK Government ICT Strategy

 * the Government will work to make citizen-focused transactional services ‘digital by default.’ Where appropriate this will be done by using Directgov as the single domain for citizens to access public services and government information.
 * the Government will enable a network of ‘assisted digital’ service providers, such as Post Offices, UK online centres and other local service providers.
 * the Government will open its data and application interfaces in ways that encourage businesses and social providers to develop new market opportunities. For example, the website Mumsnet uses Directgov tools built on standardised interfaces to provide their users with official up-to-date information on schools and family services.
 * To ensure that appropriate data is transparent and shared rather than duplicated, the Government will implement engagement processes for open data standards activity and crowd-source priority areas for data standards
 * To make citizens’ lives simpler and easier, the Government will mandate ‘channel shift’ (move online) in selected government services
 * To open up new, innovative services from a diverse range of providers, the Government will create cross-government standards on APIs and develop a quality assurance ‘kite-mark’
 * To facilitate a two-way dialogue with citizens, departments will ensure that an online channel is included in all government consultations
 * To embed social media as a mainstream channel used routinely to engage with citizens, business and internally, the Government will develop practical guidelines on departmental access to the internet and social media channels
 * The establishment of standardised formats for user satisfaction data so that users can compare and contrast their experience of the service they receive with that of others.

Specific Datasets to be Released

 * Data on comparative clinical outcomes of GP practices in England to be published by December 2011, following the lead of the NHS in London which has agreed a set of 22 indicators with local GPs
 * Prescribing data by GP practice to be published by December 2011, as per the Growth Review Complaints data by NHS hospital so that patients can see what issues have affected others and take better decisions about which hospital suits them. This commitment will be met by October 2011
 * Clinical audit data, detailing the performance of publicly funded clinical teams in treating key healthcare conditions, will be published from April 2012. This service will be piloted in December 2011 using data from the latest National Lung Cancer Audit, commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) as part of the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP)
 * Data on staff satisfaction and engagement by NHS provider (for example by hospital and mental health trust) will be published from December 2011
 * Data on the quality of post-graduate medical education by provider will be published from April 2012.
 * Data enabling parents to see how effective their school is at teaching high, average and low attaining pupils across a range of subjects, to be published from January 2012
 * Opening up access to anonymised data from the National Pupil Database to help parents and pupils to monitor the performance of their schools in depth, from June 2012. This will enable better comparisons of school performance and we will look to strengthen datasets in due course
 * Bringing together for the first time school spending data, school performance data, pupil cohort data and Ofsted judgements, from January 2012, in a parent-friendly portal, searchable by postcode
 * Data on attainment of students eligible for pupil premium to be published from January 2012
 * Data on apprenticeships paid for by HM Government, by organisation and by success rate, to be published from July 2011.
 * Sentencing data by court will be published by November 2011, enabling the public to see exactly what sentences are being handed down in their local courts, and compare different courts on a wide range of measures. The data, anonymised, will include the age, gender and ethnicity of those sentenced, the sentence given, and the time taken at each stage from offence to completion of the case in court
 * Data on performance of probation services and prisons including re-offending rates by offender and institution, to be published from October 2011 From May 2012, the national crime mapping website, Police.uk, will provide the public with information on what happens next for crime occurring on their streets, i.e. police action and justice outcomes.
 * In addition to opening up data owned by DfT and its arms length bodies, we are committed to working with the transport industry and data users to make public transport data open and freely available for re-use. Over the next year we will deliver:
 * Data on current and future roadworks on the Strategic Road Network will be published from October 2011, and subject to consultation extended during 2012 to Local Authority Streetworks Registers maintained under statute
 * All remaining government-owned free datsets from Transport Direct, including cycle route data and the national car park database to be made available for free re-use from October 2011
 * Real time data on the Strategic Road Network including incidents, speeds and congestion to be published from December 2011
 * Office of Rail Regulation to increase the amount of data published relating to service performance and complaints by May 2012
 * Rail timetable information to be published weekly by National Rail from December 2011.
 * We are working with the purchase and payment card providers to provide a consistent method of reporting government procurement card spend data for transactions above £500 in value, so this is available for publication on departmental websites, from end September 2011.

= South Africa National Plan =

South Africa's National Plan |focuses on measures to:


 * strengthen corruption combating instruments and capacity to increase integrity management systems;
 * strengthen mechanisms for meaningful citizen engagement in service delivery improvement and policy development processes;
 * hold public servants accountable to the public and the communities they serve through the development and implementation of an accountability management framework for public servants.

Efforts to Date
Combat corruption


 * Establish a Special Investigations Unit, Asset Forfeiture Unit, and an Anti-corruption Inspectorate Unit
 * The establishment of a Multi-agency Working Group to investigate corruption in procurement
 * The establishment of an Anti-corruption Task Team to coordinate the work of law enforcement agencies and watchdog bodies
 * The National Anti-corruption Forum
 * Developed and successfully piloted an Integrated Financial Management System which includes information on corruption and allows for the electronic tracking of conflict of interest of public servants and political office bearers
 * Declaration of interests and assets are compulsory for all political office bearers and senior public servants.
 * Ratified and acceded to various international anti-corruption instruments such as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Convention on Combating Bribery of Public Officials in International Business Transactions.

Media and civil society freedom


 * Individuals and groups are free to establish, belong to, and engage in lawful activities of civil society organisations.
 * Freedom of expression which includes freedom of the press and other media

Enhancing transparency in Government


 * Enacted the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) in 2000 to ensure that information on Government activities and decisions are freely available to the public
 * South Africa, as a new democracy, scored 86% in the 2008 Open Budget Index after the UK`s score of 87%, one of the world`s more established democracies.

Promoting Accountability in Government


 * The Promotion of Administrative Justice Act (PAJA) was enacted in 2000 to give effect to the constitutional injunction that public administration in South Africa must be accountable.
 * Chapter 9 of the South African Constitution provides for the establishment of institutions such as the Public Protector to safeguard and enforce the constitutional principles of openness, transparency, accountability, responsiveness, and ethical governance in the public and private sphere commensurate with good governance and international human rights practices.
 * Chapter 10 institutions such as the Public Service Commission play an equally important role in advancing public accountability.

Increasing Civic Engagement


 * The South African Government actively promotes responsive and effective governance by engaging communities and civil society organisations on an ongoing basis through consultative gatherings known as izimbizo. Izimbizo provide a platform for Government-citizen dialogue about public service delivery and policy matters.
 * In September 2009, the South Africa Government launched the Presidential Hotline as part of its drive to enhance interaction with citizens. The Hotline receives citizen complaints about issues such as public service delivery and corruption.

Develop and implement an accountability/consequences management framework for public servants.
Contribution: Accountability will be enhanced in that this framework will concretise “Batho Pele” (“People First”) principles and ensure that public servants are held accountable to the public and the communities they serve.

Implementation Responsibility: Department of Public Service and Administration. Civil society organisations will be encouraged to assess performance of public servants against this framework.

Desired Accomplishments: Concretise “Batho Pele” principles and increase accountability of public servants to the public.

Benchmarks: Framework in place and implemented in the public service.

Timeframes: 365 days

=== Formalise partnerships with civil society organisations in all nine provinces to establish Service Delivery Improvement Forums (SDIFs) at local level to provide timely citizen report cards on service delivery levels at community level, especially in relation to primary health care, water, sanitation, environmental management and housing. ===

Contribution: Accountability to the public regarding service delivery performance will be enhanced as well as greater citizen engagement in service delivery performance monitoring.

Implementation Responsibility: Department of Public Service and Administration. SANGOCO and other civil society structures.

Desired Accomplishments: Increase citizen engagement and public accountability in service delivery performance monitoring.

Benchmarks: Partnerships formalised with civil society organisations and SDIFs established in all nine provinces.

Timeframes: 365 days

=== Enhance the capacity and capabilities of communities to access and claim their socio-economic rights through the roll-out of national public education campaigns, specifically a public outreach campaign on Know Your Service Rights and Responsibilities (KYSR&amp;R) to inform citizens about their service rights, responsibilities, and legal mechanisms available to hold government accountable. ===

Contribution: Citizen awareness of legal frameworks for accountability, transparency and citizen engagement will be enhanced.

Implementation Responsibility: The Government Communication and Information Services (GCIS), Chapter 9 institutions, SANGONET, community and mainstream media, civil society constituency based structures. The Department of Public Service and Administration will lead the KYSR&amp;R Campaign.

Desired Accomplishments: Empowerment of citizens to understand and claim their rights with regard to accountability, transparency and citizen engagement in service delivery. To build an active, informed citizenry able to exercise their rights and hold government to account irrespective or their geographical location.

Benchmarks: KYSR&amp;R workshops conducted in all nine provinces including broadcasts through community radio stations in all official languages.

Timeframes: 365 days

Enhance national integrity through institutional capacity-building of National Anti-Corruption Forum (NACF) and Anti-Corruption Hotline.
This will include the capacity development of anti-corruption officials and strengthening the Hotline`s advocacy and investigation functions.

Contribution: Capacitating the anti-corruption mechanisms will enhance accountability and public trust.

Implementation Responsibility: Department for Public Service and Administration and civil society organisations on the NACF.

Desired Accomplishments: Enhance accountability and strengthen public trust.

Benchmarks: NACF strengthened and all anti-corruption officials capacitated.

Timeframes: 365 days

Approve guidelines on sanctions for corruption related cases
Contribution: Transparencywill be enhanced in that the public will know the sanctions for corruption related cases.

Implementation Responsibility: Department of Public Service and Administration.

Desired Accomplishments: Enhance transparency in how corruption related cases are dealt with in the Public Service.

Benchmarks: Guidelines approved and implemented.

Timeframes: 365 days

=== Develop a Citizen Participation guideline for Public Sector departments that would ensure that every public sector department across all spheres have a functional, resourced and capacitated citizen engagement unit which regularly and proactively engage with civil society. ===

Contribution: This guideline will give direction to Public Service departments on citizen engagement in service delivery and policy-making through, among others, the use of online and mobile technology. Participatory democracy will be enhanced.

Implementation Responsibility: Department of Public Service and Administration through consultative processes with community-based civil society structures and business.

Desired Accomplishments: Enhance citizen engagement in public service delivery and policy-making towards the delivery of efficient, effective and quality public services.

Benchmarks: Guidelines approved and implemented in compliance with international best practices.

Timeframes: 365 days

=== Enhance the involvement of civil society at every stage of the budgetary process across all spheres of government to enhance the progressive realisation of socioeconomic rights and enable citizens to track public expenditure. ===

Contribution: Enable citizens to plan and inform the strategic priorities of the budget, thereby ensuring transparency, accountability and citizen engagement at every stage of the process.

Implementation Responsibility: All public sector departments, Treasury, business and national constituency-based civil society structures.

Desired Accomplishments: To create a common understanding of the budgetary process in order to inform priority areas and produce pro-poor budgets.

Benchmarks: Standardised framework for civil society participation in budgetary processes developed.

Timeframes: 365 days

Explore the feasibility of establishing a single agency mandated by Government to develop a comprehensive and publicly accessible portal of environmental management information.
Contribution: Transparency will be enhanced if citizens have access to reliable environmental data on water quality and other environmental issues.

Implementation Responsibility: All relevant public service departments.

Desired Accomplishments: Strengthen data collection and information management on environmental issues.

Benchmarks: Feasibility study completed.

Timeframes: 365 days

= Philippine Government Action Plan =

Draft document; final plan will be approved and implementation will commence in January 2012.

Efforts to Date
Starting the tradition of transparency


 * Mandatory Disclosure of Budget Information. The Government has embedded provisions in the 2011 National Budget—its first financial blueprint—that mandate the publication of major information on budgets, finance and performance indicators in the websites of national departments and agencies.
 * Transparency in Local Governance. The Department of Interior and Local Government department has required in August 2010 all Local Government Units (LGUs) to post in local bulletin boards, newspapers and websites information on their utilization of funds and implementation of projects. As of August 26, 2011, 70 provinces, 130 cities and 1,305 municipalities have complied with this policy
 * Official Gazette Online. The Government has embarked on placing the entire corpus of Laws and Supreme Court decisions and Presidential issuances online for the first time, as well as daily updates from agencies.

Jumpstarting citizen participation


 * Participatory Budget Process. In crafting the 2012 National Budget, six departments and three government corporations piloted a consultative budget preparation process with CSOs. To support citizen engagement, the Budget department has begun publishing the People’s Budget, a summarized and layman’s version of the annual National Budget.
 * Participatory Development Planning. The Government, through the National Economic and Development Authority, has conducted a series of public consultations in the crafting of the Philippine Development Plan for 2011 to 2016. Citizen participation was also tapped for sector development planning; for instance, the Labor department has conducted consultations with labor, business, youth, academe and other stakeholders in crafting the Labor and Employment Plan for 2011-2016.
 * Partnerships for Effective Service Delivery. Agencies have entered into partnerships with stakeholders in monitoring program and project implementation. For instance, the Public Works department has partnered with a broad coalition of CSOs and other groups in monitoring public works projects. The Social Welfare department has entered into partnerships with 222 national and local CSOs and other groups for the monitoring of social protection programs including the conditional cash transfer program. The Interior and Local Government department has also partnered with 28 national and 124 regional CSOs to help monitor transparency and accountability of LGUs.

Institutionalizing public accountability


 * Results-Oriented Fiscal Management. Fiscal reform in the Aquino administration began with the reintroduction of the Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) approach in 2010. ZBB enables the government to review and terminate programs and projects that no longer deliver on intended outcomes, and to realign funding to other priorities especially in education and healthcare.xviii ZBB, together with the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework and the Organizational Performance Indicator Framework, paves the way for results-oriented fiscal management.
 * Accountability of Government Corporations. The Government-Owned or Controlled Corporations (GOCC) Governance Act of 2011 to address past abuses and patronage that made GOCCs virtual cash cows of previous government officials; promote their financial viability and fiscal discipline; and make GOCCs truly accountable to the people.
 * Citizen’s Charters and Citizen’s Report Cards. The Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007 requires all agencies to craft a Citizen’s Charter to simplify procedures and facilitate transactions. To date, 71% of agencies have issued a Citizen’s Charter. It also provides that all government agencies providing frontline services shall be subjected to a Report Card Survey to obtain feedback regarding their implementation of the Citizen’s Charter.
 * Revenue Integrity. The Finance department has intensified its revenue integrity campaigns, and has filed 184 tax evasion cases, 39 cases against suspected smugglers and 86 cases against suspected corrupt collection employees as of July 2011.
 * Performance Challenge for Local Governments – The Interior and Local Government department launched the LGU Performance Challenge Fund program in 2010 as an effort to institutionalize transparency, accountability, participation and performance in LGUs. Under this program, LGUs that exhibited strong performance in key areas of governance earned a Seal of Good Housekeeping and a chance to avail of additional budgetary support from the Fund. As of 2011, 44 provinces, 60 cities and 758 municipalities have obtained a Seal of Good Housekeeping.

Leveraging technology and innovation


 * Electronic Procurement. The Philippine Government E-Procurement System (PhilGEPS), which started in 2000, is mandated by law as the central electronic portal for government procurement. Key features at present include an electronic bulletin board for posting of bid notices and awards; a registry of more than 47,000 suppliers; automatic bid matching of opportunities with suppliers; and a virtual store of common-use supplies available from the Procurement Service, the government’s bulk buyer.
 * Targeting Social Protection Beneficiaries with Precision. The Government has an existing National Household Targeting System (NHTS) which identifies the poorest of the poor and aims to improve the service delivery systems to them. Such system, which is being used in identifying beneficiaries of national social protection programs, is expected to reduce the rate of leakage of resources and lessen exclusion of beneficiaries.
 * Digitizing Releases from Congressional Allocations – The Budget department has launched on June 2011 the Electronic Transparency and Accountability Initiative for Lump Sum Funds System (eTAILS), an information system that digitizes the processing of releases for Congressional Allocations and supports their timely online disclosure.
 * Online Avenues for Public Feedback and Communication – The Finance department has launched its "Pera ng Bayan" website where citizens can file anonymous reports or leads on possible tax evasion, smuggling and government collusion cases. Various other government agencies have tapped their websites and social media (Facebook and Twitter) in disseminating key information and soliciting public feedback.

Improve Transparency of Government Agencies

 * Escalate Fiscal Transparency. By the end of June 2012, the government will improve the compliance rate of departments in the Executive branch in the disclosure their approved budgets, utilization of funds, awarded bids and annual procurement plans to 100 percent. Agency compliance will be measured by an index, to be developed and published online within 90 days, and to be co-managed with CSOs.
 * Promote Access to Government Information. Throughout 2012, the Government will move towards adopting a policy for citizens to freely access government information in a timely, relevant and meaningful way, subject to certain limitations such as national security, foreign diplomacy and privacy concerns. It will work with CSOs and the private sector in broadening the scope of access to official information through all possible means; as well as in improving the compliance of government agencies to existing standards of information disclosure.

Deepen Citizen Participation

 * Organize a Philippine Open Governance Partnership. During the preparatory phase of this Action Plan, the Government will organize a Philippine Open Governance Partnership that will be tapped in plotting open government reforms in the medium-term, in monitoring performance and in surfacing broader areas where interventions need to be escalated. Government will engage a broad spectrum of national and local CSOs, business groups, academe and other stakeholders; as well as reach out to the Legislature, the Judiciary, Constitutional Bodies and Local Governments for them to take part in open government endeavors.
 * Expand Participatory Budgeting. By the end of June 2012, in time for the preparations for the 2013 National Budget, the Government will expand the coverage of participatory budget preparation to at least 12 departments and 6 government corporations, and enhance the process to address issues experienced during the pilot consultations for the 2012 Budget. Before end-2012, the Government, in consultation with CSOs, will craft a roadmap to expand and institutionalize participatory budgeting to the other phases of the budget cycle and to the national, regional and local levels.
 * Forge Partnerships for the Development of Local Government-Level Poverty Reduction and Empowerment Plans. The government will push for stronger collaboration between national agencies, local government units (LGUs) and community organizations in localizing poverty through LGU-level poverty reduction and empowerment plans. During the preparatory phase of this Action Plan, 600 qualified LGUs and partner-CSOs will be identified; community facilitators will be recruited and trained; and manuals for the training the community organizers. From January to July 2012, community workshops will be conducted in drafting community poverty reduction plans that will be incorporated into the proposed National Budget for 2013.
 * Establish an Empowerment Fund. To support the bottom-up approach in development planning and budgeting, the Government will establish a facility to support CSOs in organizing citizens and communities to engage government in the implementation and audit of poverty reduction programs. A mechanism will be developed to safeguard the independence of CSOs from the agencies they engage. Such facility will be established during the fourth quarter of 2011. Screening, selection and provision of funding to qualified CSOs will be undertaken throughout 2012.
 * Institutionalizing Social Audit for Public Infrastructure Projects. The A partnership between the Audit commission, Executive departments and CSOs will craft a roadmap for institutionalizing social audit for general public works and agriculture infrastructure projects by end-2011, for implementation throughout 2012.

Escalate Accountability to Ethical and Performance Standards

 * To ensure a single approach in measuring government performance—at the institutional, financial or individual level—the government will design and begin cascading a harmonized performance measurement system from the disparate systems at present. A Task Force will be constituted before end-2011 to formulate such a consolidated and harmonized performance measurement system by March 2012. Implementation of this system will begin in April 2012, for review by December 2012.
 * Install Results-Oriented Budgeting in More Agencies.

The Organizational Performance Indicator Framework (OPIF) will be further mainstreamed into the budget and planning processes of all agencies and harmonized with existing performance measurement systems in government. By end-2012, 10 Departments will have fully-developed OPIF systems, with clearly defined agency outputs and performance indicators that are linked to the Philippine Development Plan. Meanwhile, the Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) will again be used, and in an expanded manner, in crafting the proposed National Budget for 2013. From January to June 2013, at least seven additional programs and projects would have been subjected to ZBB.


 * Increase Compliance with Citizen’s Charters. By the end of 2012, Government will ensure that 100% of national government agencies have published a Citizen’s Charter. Agencies shall also strive to improve their Citizen’s Charters—as well as their processes for frontline and other services, and response mechanisms to complaints and reports—in consultation with CSOs.
 * Roll-out Internal Audit and Internal Control Manuals. Before the end of 2011, the Government will issue a Philippine Government Internal Audit Manual (PGIAM). From January to December 2012, the PGIAM and the National Guidelines on Internal Control System (NGICS) will be rolled-out in nine critical departments. This is in line with the target of all agencies adopting the PGIAM and NGICS by 2016.
 * Embedding Accountability in Local Governance. In line with the goal of making all lower-income municipalities and cities pass the Seal of Good Housekeeping by 2016, the Interior and Local Government department will increase the compliance rate to existing standards from 50% to 70% before the end of 2012. Furthermore, new standards that link performance in social development areas to the awarding of Seal of Good Housekeeping and Performance Challenge Fund grants would have been developed.

Maximize Technology and Innovation

 * Establish a Single Portal for Government Information. The proposed Single Portal for Government Information is envisioned to be a central government website where citizens can access government information as well as provide feedback on government performance. Throughout 2012, the Government, in consultation with stakeholders, will craft a roadmap and develop a Single Portal for Government Information which complies with basic open data standards.
 * Install a Government Integrated Financial Information Management System. To ensure the efficiency of government financial management procedures, the Government will develop a complete Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS) by 2016. By August 2012, the first track of GIFMIS, which will serve as the single data sharing platform of government’s oversight agencies, will be developed.
 * Pursue Electronic Bidding and Procurement. In line with the medium-term goal of digitizing the bidding process, the Government will develop additional features of PhilGEPS by December 2012. These new features include a facility to enable the online submission of bid documents; a module for CSOs to monitor tenders online; an electronic fee payment system; an expanded supplier registry and a module for agency posting of their annual procurement plans. The Government will also develop and pilot a system of procurement cards, in lieu of the often-abused system of cash advances, by June 2012.
 * Establish a National Justice Information System. In line with addressing the slow pace of justice that has compromised poor victims and poor suspects, the Government will develop a National Justice Information System (NJIS), an integrated criminal justice database system that will facilitate the efficient recording, monitoring, tracking and reporting of crimes, cases, offenders and victims. By December 2012, the Justice department will develop and implement an online registry of opinions, issuances and other legal documents that will easily be accessible to judicial agents. The first phase of NJIS, which will integrate the systems of law enforcement, prosecution and corrections agencies, is envisioned for completion by the end of 2014.
 * Establish a Manpower Information System and Central Payroll System. To better manage government manpower requirements and improve accountability in the disbursement of funds for personal services, the Government will enhance its Government Manpower Information System (GMIS) as a comprehensive database of government manpower by the end of 2014. By December 2012, a National Payroll System that is linked to GMIS will be developed and piloted.
 * Develop a Registry of Farmers and Fisherfolk. The Government envisions a full database-registry of farmers and fisherfolk that will more accurately identify and reach beneficiaries of government interventions for agricultural and fisheries development, and to reduce the past massive leakage of government funds for this purpose. In the first quarter of 2012, a pilot registry will be developed covering 20 provinces with the high poverty incidence and high vulnerability to natural calamities.
 * Electronic Transparency for Congressional Allocations and Lump Sum Funds. By the end of 2012, the Government will expand the eTAILS so that 1) other often-politicized lump-sum funds are processed through it; and 2) where citizen reportage on the implementation of projects funded by Congressional Allocations is enabled.
 * Interactive Fiscal Transparency. The Government will develop and launch a "Budget ng Bayan" website, which will serve as an interactive platform for citizens to learn about and find information on the National Budget as well as to file citizen reports on its implementation. Such a website will be activated by March 2012 and it will be fully operational by December 2012. During the period of October to December 2011, prior to the commencement of the implementation year, the Philippine Government shall continue looking into further improving this 2012 OGP Action Plan. More importantly, it shall broaden public consultations and cooperation with other branches of Government in ensuring the sustainability of open government reforms over the medium-term.

= Norway National Action Plan =

Available here.

Efforts to Date
1. Transparency in state finances, the national budget and government accounts


 * Publish budget documents online


 * Monthly accounting reports published on the government website


 * Audit and monitoring carried out by the Office of the Auditor General

2. Transparency in the petroleum sector and revenues from oil and gas extraction


 * Support the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) when it was launched in 2002

3. Income and asset disclosure

4. Public review, public consultation


 * All important decisions are subject to public review and consultation.


 * All public consultation documents, including the comments received, are made public as provided by law.

5. Freedom of information legislation, electronic correspondence record


 * The main rule is that case documents, journals and similar registers of an administrative agency are public except as otherwise provided by statute or by regulations pursuant thereto, and any person may apply to an administrative agency for access to case documents, journals and similar registers of that agency


 * Documents in the public administration are registered and the record is made publicly accessible. The records of most of the central government agencies and entities in Norway are published on the website “Electronic Public Records” at www.oep.no.

1. An Open Public Sector and Inclusive Government

 * Provide digital public services, Enabling better services and more effective administration. This will require amending legislation, instituting common IT systems and ensuring good, effective, and predictable digital services provided to the general public.
 * The Central Government Communications Policy began on 10/16/2009. It applies to the entire government and aims to ensure citizens: get clear information about their rights and responsibilities, have access to information about the Government, and are invited to participate in policy fomulation. This policy has six principles: Openness, participation, access to relevant information, activeness, coherence, and line management. The Plain Language Project aims to make official documents, letters, and forms more readable, with a particular focus on confusing legal jargon used in legislation. The policy also hopes to ensure that public information resources are financed with public funds. Open data can lead to new business opportunities. State enterprises are required to make data available in a user friendly, electronic format.
 * Develop a better system to compile and disseminate official statistics, StatRes. StatRes' objectives are more openness about state resources, a better basis for analysis, and improvement in the performance of state enterprisis. Public disclosure is a democratic right, StatRes helps this.
 * Initiated a national survey to learn about perception of public services over time. User opinions of public services are important. 94% of respondants were satisfied with Norway as a place to live and work, but 58% believed that the public sector wastes resources. A second survey will be carried out in the fall of 2012. The survey is viewable here:http://www.difi.no/artikkel/2010/11/hovedfunn-fra-innbyggerundersokelsen-del-1 All state enterprises have to conduct user surveys regularly.
 * Issued guidelines on quarantining and restricting specific issues that civil servants can work on when transfering jobs. Apply to civil servants and politicians. Make people wait before starting a new job, or working on specific issues after switching jobs.
 * Focus on dealing with citizen inquiries seriously by allowing them to express their opinion, listening to them, dealing with them fairly and efficiently, replying in an understandable way, providing an explananation when they are denied, and allowing them to lodge appeals. Challenge is to institute a user-firendly culture in public administration. Use electronic systems when possible. Further develop feedback systems, and take that feedback seriously.

2. Measures to promote gender equality and women’s full participation in civic life, the private sector, the public administration and political processes
Pursue a broad-based, systematic policy to promote women's rights and opportunities in civic life. An important priority of the Norway Open Government Partnership.Have included family and gender equality policies since the 1950's. Equal rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or age is a fundamental statutory principle. Amended Gender Equality Act in 1988 to include a provision requiring more representation by the less represented sex on public committees, boards, working groups, councils, and delegation. All private and public enterprises have to actively promote equality and report on their efforts in annual reports. Social welfare arrangements have a veiw to true gender equality for both men and women. People should not have to choose between a family and a career. Starting in 2003, state owned companies had to ensure that their boards were at least 40-60 women to men.

In the future, Norway plans to take the following further steps:


 * Follow recommendations on White Paper on equal pay to ensure that equal pay for work of equal value is a fundamental principle.
 * Ensure that more women apply for top private sector jobs.
 * Work to get more women involved in local politics, where there are few female mayors or municipal executives.
 * Develop a national municipal gender equality program and action plan that will be launched in the fall of 2011.
 * Include immigrant women in the labor market, inform them of their rights, and involve them in pre-qualification programs.
 * Address gender stereotypes at a young age in hopes of preventing their spread.
 * Ensure young people have the chance to influence decisions that effect them. A government commission is scheduled to release a report on this in fall 2011.
 * National and international action plans to combat domestic violence.

3. Transparency in the management of oil and gas revenues / financial transparency

 * Transparency and public participation have been integral to the management of the Norwegian petroleum sector since its inception. It is especially important because of the large economic impact of the petroleum industry in Norway. Norway has supported the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative since its founding 10 years ago. In 2006 the EITI moved its headquarters to Oslo.
 * Norway is the first OECD country to implement full EITI reporting, meaning that all companies operating on the Norwegian shelf report their taxes and duties every year. Norway compiles them in an interpoperable format. Norway will continue to implement EITI reporting, and help developing countries work on EITI implementation.
 * Transparency is a central principle in the management of the Government Pension Fund Global. A white paper is issued every year on the management of the fund. The fund's investments are published online, along with the current value of the fund. The fund excludes companies that don't comply with its ethical guidelines.
 * The ministry of finance participates in the IMF's International Forum on Sovereign Wealth Funds, promoting transparency in such funds.
 * Financial sector transparency helps ensure transparency in other economic sectors. Norway has persued an ambitious agenda in this area. They have focused on organized crime and development policies with a focus on financial transparency and accounting. Have taken actions to include providing public access to tax records, sharing information with other countries, anti-corruption guidelines for state-owned businesses, participation in international efforts.
 * Adopted the Action Plan Against Economic Crime, in March 2011, with a major focus on tranpsarency. Requires multinational companies to include tax information when they publish annual accounts. This helps ensure proper revenues are recovered.

= Mexico National Action Plan =

Available here.

Efforts to Date

 * Participated in the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Public Officials in International Business, the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption and the UN Convention Against Corruption.
 * Developed a legal framework, incorporating international legal instruments and built instutitions, drafting new legislation, and implementing public policy coinciding with the principles of open government.

Improving Public Services

 * Simplified government procedures with a regulatory overhaul that eliminated 40% of federal procedures and 45% of unneccesary legal provisions.
 * Launched a website that allows citizens to search an indexed registry of all Mexican Government Information.
 * Implemented an interoperable and open data agreement that will allow for softwarde development, interporable digital exchanges, and publishing of all public data.

Increasing Public Integrity

 * Passed the Federal Transparency and Access to Government Public Information Act, which guarantees access to public information from any branch of government.
 * Focused on transparency in decision-making for the Central Bank through publication of meeting minutes for board meetings dealing with monetary policy.
 * Enacted a Federal Government Code of Ethics, reformed the Federal Law of Administrative Responsibilities, and made each Federal agency enact a code of conduct.

More Effectively Managing Public Resources

 * Overhauled procurement bidding process to better manage public resources. Developed consolidated bidding process and redeveloped the Electronic System for Public Biddings to completely digitize the bidding process.

Increasing Corporate Accountability

 * Designed an Entrepreneurial Ethics Workshop to show private sector workers international tools at their disposal to fight corruption. First workshop was held in May 2011.

Improving Public Services

 * Survey citizens regarding 300 high-impact government procedures and services. Set up "one stop window" for commercial and corporate transactions, aim to replicate these projects in other branches of government.
 * Rely on development of citizen support website (http://www.gob.mx/). Aim to make it an interactive tool for information exchange between government and citizens.
 * Through interoperable open data, strive to promote integration of processes related to digital services, common platforms, and information systems to help citizens use raw databases.
 * These efforts should lead to new generation of reliable digital public assets.

Increasing Public Integrity

 * Broaden publication of socially useful information. Update and strengthen ways that agencies identify and publish that data. Strengthen budget transparency through updates on investments, public finance, state to state financial transfers, indicators, and others.
 * Security related commitments. Allow citizens to access and analyze data on felons. Publish criteria for distribution of public safety funds to States.
 * Telecommunications related commitments. Determine criteria along international parameters, publish rate of compliance by telecommunication service providers.
 * Fossil Fuel related commitments. Geological and geophysical information will publish with international guidelines. Allow for public scrutiny of projects.
 * Education related commitments. Increase quality of education through social surveillance. Continue and increase hiring of better qualified teachers. Increase number of schools that particiapte in ENLACE program, continue publishing information to guague if students have aqcuired basic competence. Compile information about the number of schools, teachers, and students in non-aggregate fashion.

More Effectively Managing Public Resources

 * Commit to improve public finance auditing procedures in order to implement homogeneous accounting practices to guaratnee more transparency and accountability.
 * Audit Municipal and State governments.
 * Consolidation of a new System for Public Bidding is fundamental to achieving more efficient administration of public resources. Imrpove the Electronic System for Public Biddings, consolidate new hiring mechanisms. Develop clear responsibility chains to empower civil society and th media to scrutinize government procurement.

Increasing Corporate Accountability

 * Develop Business Integrity Workshop online to gain a wide audience. Promote the workshop specifically in areas that need greater attention to manipulation and bribery matters. Develop an evaluation mechanism to measure the workshop's impact.
 * Increase the number of companies that disclose their governance structure, balance sheets, and eco-friendly initiatives.
 * Government will continue to foster self-regulatory mechanisms to increase corporate integrity and accountability in the private sector. Develop a mechanism to permit the recognition and evaluation of businesses with such programs.
 * extend the first consultation test. Internatlly replicate the process of setting tangible goals and strategic alliances.

= Indonesia National Action Plan =

Available here.

Improving Public Services

 * Education Fund Transparency: Open data to make it clear which schools recieeve government funds, and what tuition fees and costs parents have to pay. Make the process more clear for parents, teachers, students, and the general public.
 * Health Fund &amp; Insurance Transparency: Introduced an initiative to open and improve access to fundamental health and insurance information.
 * Transparency and Accountability in Povery Reduction Interventions: Poverty reduction efforts have long been known for data rigging. 2011 directive would bring more transparency and accountability and ensure that beneficiaries recieve what they are due.

Increasing Public Integrity

 * Strengthening Ministries' Information Units: Mandated that public institutions establish and information unit. Directive was then issued to strengthen the mandate. A national workshop was held to share best practices.
 * Transparency and Accountability in the Police Department: A directive in 2011 aimed to improve public access to information, put information online, engage with stakeholders, and add capacity to Police Information Units throughout the country.
 * Transparency in the Attorney General's Office: AG recieves a great deal of attention and pressure for more transparency. Attempting to increase openness through bureaucratic reform.
 * Transparency in Prisons: attempts to disseminate information about people held in prisons. Public can now access the names of detainees, charges, release dates, etc.
 * Transparency and Accountability in the Customs Office: Improve the management of government revenue from customs, increase services to the public. Directed aims to involve the public in reporting mis-conduct and provide easy access to information about the Customs office.
 * Transparency and Accountability in the Immigration Office: Immigration services have been corrupted by bribes and special privileges. A 2011 directed forced transparency and accountability on the department.

More Effectively Managing Public Resources

 * Transparency in the National Budget: Committed to improve the government's standing in the Open Budget Index through a variety of efforts. Indonesia increased its OBI score 10 points between 2006-2010. Plans to establish a "citizen budget" are aimed at raising the score higher.
 * Indonesia's participation in Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI): Indonesia is well on its way to full compliance, having completed 9 of 20 reuirements.

Improving Public Services

 * 1) Poverty reduction programs. Provide online information on budget allocations for the poverty reduction program, implementation plan, and implementation results. Enforce a public participation mechanism throughout the cycle. December 2012 goal.
 * 2) Government subsidies for education in elementary and junior high schools. Publish data on: budget allocation, disbursement, and expenditures. Information should be published from every elementary and junior high in 411 regional governments by December 2012.
 * 3) Government Subsidies in the Health Sector. Publish data on: budget allocations and expenditures, and recipients of health insurance. To be collected from every community hospital in 497 regional governments by December 2012.

Increasing Public Integrity

 * 1) Police and Public Prosecution services. Publish data on: Institution and officer profiles, type and service mechanism, time and cost, case status/progress, and annual reports. Data is required to be published on the institution's website. Goal, December 2011.
 * 2) Services at high risk for corruption like the Tax Court, Immigration, and Customs offices. Publish data on: Institution and officer profiles, type and service mechanisms, time and cost, case status and progress, and annual reports. Data required to be published on institution's website. Goal, December 2011.
 * 3) Civil services recruitment by central and regional government. Publish data on: position openings and requirements, recruitment process, selection criteria, test results, and announcment of final candidates to be employed. Citizen complaints and corresponding resolutions pertaining to the recruitment process are also to be published. Goal, December 2013.
 * 4) The Land Administration Office. Publish Data on: types of services, processes required for service, provisions, estimated completion time, costs for a service provision, status/progress of service requests. Publish on the institutional website. Goal, December 2011.

More Effectively Managing Public Resources

 * 1) National level budget information. Publish data on: national budget (proposed and enacted), project and budget list, periodic budget disbursments, annual budget reports, audited budget reports, citizen budget. Goal, July 2012.
 * 2) District level budget information. Publish data on: regional budget (proposed and enatcted), project (sub-district level) and budget lists, and budget disbursments. Goal, December 2012.
 * 3) Procurement activities of government institutions. Install E-procurement software at 56 central government instutions. Goal, December 2012.
 * 4) Develop One-Map Portal to promote efficiency on Forestry Management. Digitize data and information related to primary and secondary forests on a single porta. Synchronize with land area license data. Goal, December 2013.
 * 5) Environment, natural resources, and spatial data management. Key actions include: Publish information on government revenues from extractive industries (goal, October 2012), establish a multi-stakeholders forum for spatial plan development (goal, July 2012), publish spatial plan document (goal, December 2012). Indonesia is committeed to be fully complient with the EITI by October 2012.

= Brazil National Action Plan =

Available here.

Efforts to Date

 * 1988 Constitution guarantees citizens right to submit bills (famously, the Clean Records Law, which prevents criminals from running for political office) and the right of access to public information.
 * Since 2000 the government has enhanced the Integrated Financial Administration System and developed the ComprasNet Portal to keep information on procurement processes and suppliers.
 * In 2004, launched the Transparency Portal, providing online information on the federal budget. As of 2010, the portal is updated in near real time.
 * Passed a law in 2009 requiring all levels of government to disclose their budget data in real time online. The law is being gradually implemented.
 * Adopted a variety of web portals to help citizens access procurement and contracts information, data on health firms and professionals, and information about companies who have been found to engage in fraud, corruption, or procurement/conracts misdeeds.
 * Brazil is party to 3 anti-corruption conventions and actively participates in a number of other leading forums on corruption issues.
 * National Conferences and Councils have helped to increase social participation in public policy-making. Conferences are held on municipal, regional, state, free, virtual, and national levels. National councils are organized with consultative and deliberative characteristics, created to produce and follow up on federal public policy. 60% of some councils are representatives from civil society.
 * Brazil has improved the public consultation process in connection with bills drafted by the Executive branch for submission to the Congress.
 * In 2006 Brazil moved to enable citizens to file tax returns directly. This simplified procedures and strenghtened oversight.
 * Judicial courts post information on proceedings, decisions, and precedents on their websites. in 2009 they launched an electronic system aimed at reducing the time spent on bureaucratic aspects of proceedings.

Federal Access to Information System

 * Perform a diagnostic study on values, knowledge, and culture towards access to public information in executive branch. Through December 2011.
 * Perform diagnostic study on the role of the Federal Ombudsman Units in public information policy. Through March 2012.
 * Develop a guide for public officials on access to information. By December 2011.
 * Research study to identify societal demands regarding access to information, aim towards strengthening active transparency policies. By September 2012.
 * Develop a model to organize information services and procedures for access to public information for citizens in the Federal Government. By September 2012.
 * Develop a distance education program for public officials to learn about access to information. By June 2012.
 * Carry out capacity building programs for public officials connected to Information Management. By September 2012.
 * Prepare a catalogue of public data and information available on the internet from Federal agencies to facilitate access to data. By April 2012.

Active Transparency and Open Data

 * Develop and construct the Transparency Portal's Data Warehouse. A unified database designed to consolidate information provided on the Transparency portal. By September 2012.
 * Restructure the Transparency Portal. Integrate and expand content, enhance usability, increase interactivity, ensure mobile access. First phase by September 2012, second phase by June 2013.
 * Provide data from the Resource Transfer Agreements and Contracts System in an open format. By March 2012.
 * Construct Strategic Science, Technology, and Innovation Management Platform. Aimed at moderninzing and leveraging Ministry of Science and Technology strategic management capablilties, ensuring transparency and enhanced allocation of public funds. By September 2012.
 * National Open Data Infrastructure. Develop National Open Data Infrastructure and set objectives for coming years, start developing plan in September 2011, publish plan in March 2012. Publish capacity building plan by December 2012. Design awareness raising activities through September 2012. Launch the Brazil Open Data Portal in Beta by December 2011.

Social Participation and Citizen Engagement

 * Organize 1st National Conference on Transparency and Social Control. Municipal Conferences between July-September 2011, Virtual Conferences from September 2011 - April 2012, State Conferences from November 2011 - April 2012, and a National Conference in May 2012.
 * Organize National Seminar on Social Participation. Guide government action from 2011-2014, October 2011.
 * Organize a meeting of the Inter-Council Forum to present the proposal for the PPA 2012-2015 by October 2011.
 * Execute a Partnership with W3C Brazil, through September 2012.
 * Execute a Partnership with the Digital Culture Laboratory, through September 2012.
 * Organize the 1st National Open Data Meeting, throug October 2011.

Budget Transparency and Public Resource Management

 * School Development Plan. Seek to assist institutions on the effort to expand quality of education by strengthening the respective policy framework. Using an online platform to identify problems and craft an action plan. Make tools available to all schools. Through September 2012.
 * Facilitate access to specific databases on the transparency portal. allow for increased citizen access to information on federal budget execution. Varies between September 2011, December 2011, and March 2012.
 * Availability of data of the United Suppliers Registry and Agreements. On the Procurement Portal, available at http://api.comprasnet.gov.br/. Until March 2012.

Procurement Procedures and Government Contracts

 * Registry of National Education Prices: a centralized procurement model designed for all states and municipalities. Provides for a single procurement procedure, standardizes the prices of certain educational supplies. Goal is to increase the number of included supplies. Goal, September 2012.
 * Contracting and Contractual Management of IT Services: improve procurement procedures and delivery of Federal IT services by rationalizing the contracting of services and applying consolidated IT governance methods. Goal, September 2012.

Corruption Prevention

 * Implementation of the Pro-Ethics Comapny Registry: The National Registry of Companies Committed to Ethics and Integrity. Aimed at giving visibility to companies that invest in ethics, integrity, and corruption prevention. advance full implementation of the registry. Goal, September 2012.

Federal Ombudsman Units

 * Systemic Integration of Ombudsman Units: indicators designed to improve the quality of public service deliveries. Government will develop and provide open software to facilitate citizen participation and shared management of complaints, establish a participatory development process to promote systemic integration of the Federal ombudsmans. Goal, September 2012.
 * Continuing Training for the Public Ombudsman Units of the Federal Executive Branch: provide continuing training to the Ombudsman units by organizing a database of best practices, aimed at developing training policies. Goal, September 2012.

Educational Services

 * Control Panel for the Integrated Monitoring and Oversight System: designed to assist managers in monitering the Education department's strategic actions. Available on the internet, displays various indicators. Enables managers and citizens to filter information in a number of ways. Government will increase the number of available indicators. Goal, September 2012.

Online Delivery of Services to Citizens

 * Public Services Portal: develop a simple portal, accessible through mobile technology, that will hold a directory of services delivered by the government. Goal, September 2012.