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THE MINISTER FOR Public Expenditure and Reform will today announce measures that will accelerate Ireland’s membership of the Open Government Partnership (OGP).
The OGP is a global multilateral initiative that aims to secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency.
It asks governments to make more information available about their activities, empower citizens through increased civic participation, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance.
Ireland is expected to join the partnership in April 2014.
Speaking ahead of an OGP summit in London, Howlin said that Ireland will take steps to ensure membership of the OGP.
“As part of the process and in response to some key recommendation contained in the recent report on Ireland’s OGP priorities proposed by civil society groups I am proposing a suite of measures designed to provide major impetus to Open Data in Ireland.
Open Data – more open access to public sector data – has a significant potential to yield substantial benefits to the citizen and the economy as well as underpinning greater openness, transparency and accountability.
These measures include:
Howlin concluded:
“The delivery of these commitments on Open Data at the Summit can drive innovation and economic growth, improve public services and strengthen performance accountability by creating a culture in which public sector data is widely accessible for re-use and the realisation of user benefits.”
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Howlin you and your party are complete sellouts. The only way I can see you and your filthy party redeem themselves is just gas yourself and that poison party you belong too.
It’s ‘to’ not ‘too’.
Will this include semi-state bodies too?
For anyone interested the report submitted to the minister by civil society groups is available at http://www.ogpireland.ie/2013/10/02/final-report-ogp-consultation/
Someone should remind him that a year ago, they shut down the distribution of industry standard xml based transcripts of dial proceedings, in favour of proprietary approach. This effectively shut down transparency via kildarestreet website for months. They had to work tirelessly to translate it and get the firehose back on.
Allrite pal?!
Sound, how’s the pug?
I hate that shortarse.
This reeks.
Any chance he’d announce his resignation like many of his fellow Labourites. Labour’s loss-Country’s gain!
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