Madrid, January 29, 2025.- The Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Service, Óscar López, presided over the constitutive meeting of the organizing committee of the IX Global Summit of the Alliance for Open Government that was held at the headquarters of the Ministry, in which different leaders of both the State Administration and the Basque Government and Mayor of Vitoria were present and online.

Spain co-chairs the Alliance for Open Government since October 2024 and will organize the summit in Vitoria on 7.8 and 9 October this year with the purpose of defending Open Government, multilateralism and democracy. The committee established today will be responsible for planning, organizing and implementing the activities of the summit and will promote collaboration with other administrations, public and private entities, as well as other civil society organizations.

The minister urged them to make Vitoria “the global epicenter of citizen participation” in October, in which “the values of transparency, integrity, accountability, inclusion and participation” are defended with initiatives that “allow democracy to be defended and citizen trust restored”.