Participate in a small 1st trial to help us show government what it could look like: 2 weeks left to provide views and comments on the 1st Irish OGP Action Plan! Open Knowledge Ireland are piloting a more transparent and open way of providing feedback and input to the OGP Action Plan that was recently published […]
Last Meeting of the Joint OGP Working Group between 5 civil society group members and the D/PER Team
First things first: Last Meeting of the Joint OGP Working Group between 5 civil society group members and the DPER Team. We were never in favour of these closed group meetings as the only way to communicate on drafting the OGP Action Plan. We raised wider consultation, online channels and more open channels of communication […]
OGP Action Plan: Meetings with Departments of Justice and Environment
As we are continuing our work to collaborate on drafting Ireland’s 1st OGP Action Plan in a Joint Working Group the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform D/PER has helped us to set up 2 meetings with members of civil society and officials from the Department of Justice and the Department of the Environment, Community and […]
1st Irish OGP Action Plan – 1st meeting between civil society and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
On Thursday, 6th Feb. 2014, representatives of three civil society organisations, citizens and the Open Knowledge Foundation Ireland met with William Beausang, Head of Government Reform Unit and three of his colleagues from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to further develop Ireland’s plan for open government. The meeting took place in the government rooms in […]
Open letter to Irish Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin T.D.
This Open Letter was also published as a post on the Open Government Partnership Blog. In May of this year Ireland has committed to the Open Government Partnership and now needs to deliver the country Action Plan that will allow it to formally join the OGP in April 2014. The Open Letter requesting a meeting with […]