July 26, 2024.- Vitoria-Gasteiz will host the IX Global Summit of the Alliance for Open Government (OGP), a meeting that will be held in the autumn of next year and in which representatives of civil society, governments and leaders from around the world will participate, as announced by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, during his appearance in the extraordinary plenary held in the Congress of Deputies to account for the decisions adopted in the European Councils of 17 and 27 June and to outline the fundamental lines of the Democracy Action Plan. This summit is the main international meeting between representatives of public administrations and civil society to discuss open government issues.
The Secretary of State for Public Service, Clara Mapelli, met this Friday with representatives of the City of Vitoria to begin the organization of the event.
From 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025, Spain will co-chair, together with a representative of civil society, Cielo Magno (from the coalition of Filipino organizations Bantay Kita), the Steering Committee of the Alliance for Open Government. The Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Service, José Luis Escrivá, had the opportunity to address, together with Magno, the main issues of this co-presidency, in one of the events held on the occasion of the Open Administration Week last June.
This Alliance was born in 2011 as a global initiative of government leaders and advocates of civil society, promoted by the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, with the objective of promoting transparent, participatory, inclusive and responsible governance. It includes 75 countries and 104 local governments, representing more than two billion people, and thousands of civil society organisations. Every two years, each committee member presents an action plan jointly created with civil society that outlines specific commitments to improve transparency, accountability and public participation in government. Spain has been part of OGP at the national level since the year of its foundation.
The Alliance for Open Government seeks collaboration between governments, civil society and citizens, through the exchange of innovative methodologies at a global level in the implementation of specific and measurable commitments, initiatives and Open Government activities through action plans. Spain has already presented four action plans and is in the process of preparing the fifth plan, which it will present in December of this year.
To this end, during the month of March 2024 a public consultation was carried out in which 80 contributions were received containing 411 proposals, that is 2.5 times the number of those received in the consultation of the previous plan. In May and June, deliberative workshops were held with joint AAPP-Civil Society participation and there are ten axes proposed as commitments by the different administrations: citizen participation, transparency and access to information, integrity and accountability, civic space, open administration, digital governance, fiscal openness, right to truthful information, promotion of Open Government and Open State.