Open Local Government Innovation Exchange #OGPGeorgia / #OGPLocal
Austin (United States) Madrid (Spain)
Basque Country (Spain) Nariño (Colombia)
Bojonegoro (Indonesia) Ontario (Canada)
Buenos Aires (Argentina) Paris (France)
Elgeyo Marakwet (Kenya) São Paulo (Brazil)
Iași (România) Scotland (UK)
Jalisco (Mexico) Sekondi Takoradi (Ghana)
Kaduna State (Nigeria) Seoul (South Korea)
Kigoma-Ujiji (Tanzania) South Cotabato (PHL)
La Libertad (Peru) Tbilisi (Georgia)
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2 OGP LOCAL PROGRAM – 2018 UPDATE
Judges Hussein Ruhava Mayor, Kigoma Ujiji Municipality OGP Local Pioneer
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Marité Moras, Head of Cooperation Activities Unit Congress of Local & Regional Authorities Council of Europe
Aichida Ul- Aflaha, Public Sector Specialist
Governance Global Practice
World Bank
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Pitch 1: Credit Card Case
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Transparency is essence of every
decisionmaker! “Credit Card Case”
prof. Vladimir Prebilič
Mayor of Kočevje (Slovenia)
“You can fool all the people some
of the time and some of the people
all the time, but you cannot fool all
the people all the time.” Abraham Lincoln
“Fake news!” Donald Trump
This is how we assured transparency.
Transparency is essence of every decisionmaker!
Provides TRUST!!!
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Pitch 2: Open Tactics
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Pitch 3: Civic Tech for Governmental Change: the case Of BA Obras
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Information based dialogue with
society on a key issue
Open data
“One stop window” for all public works
Transparency
Accountability
Collaboration and feedback
Double Impact of BA OBRAS (Public Works)
Tool that fosters internal governmental
change and promotes benefits of openness
Positive behavioural change from public
officials towards data and openness
Harmonization of monitoring tools for
internal and external use
Leverage to improve data standards
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Pitch 4: Innovative Approaches Of Chernivtsi
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Involving
by
informing
©Illustration: Truus Teunissen
More doesn’t mean
better
Geoportal:
everything on
one map
map.city.cv.ua
Datasets
More than just a
map
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Pitch 5: Osoigo Platform
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Pitch 6: Check My Service, Mongolia
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Voting for First Group
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Pitch 7: Community of Practice On Transparency & Open Local Government 33
Community of practice on transparency and open government: local actions for transparent and sustainable territories July 16 2018 Tbilisi, Georgia María Alejandra Rico United Cities and Local Governments - UCLG
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Local and regional governments are the natural space for the development of the Open Government Agenda Improve local governments’
capacities to govern with the citizens & generate better and institucional spaces for collaborative work.
Better articulation of Local and Regional Government in National and Global Open Government Agendas.
Linking Open Government as driver of SDGs. Development goals can ONLY be eached only if local actors fully participate. 36
Subnational governments are the level of government closest to people/territories and the best placed to link the development goals with local communities. Open government initiatives at the subnational level potentially generate more impact, have greater visibility and are easier to measure. Laboratories to promote open innovation and collaborative work between citizens and governments and have important potential to improve the quality of the public sector and democracy & renew trust.
What we have & what we need
Political incidence
To defend the role of local and regional governments in the development of Open Government policies as a strategy to achieve the 2030 Agenda.
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Awareness & Capacity Development For local and regional governments to get inspired, share experiences and learn to govern with the citizens.
Partnership & Networking
To work togueter towards to build transparent, open and inclusive territories.
Community of practice on Open Local Governments
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Pitch 8: Open Data Kit Based Project Monitoring
• LGU Aleosan – a 3rd class municipality w/ 39,405 pop.
• Project monitoring was usually done by LGU staff, as primary member of Project Monitoring Council;
• CSOs were not involved in project monitoring, especially for locally funded projects;
• Monitoring was usually paper based using sheets/ forms & a separate camera for photo & geotagging;
• Gathering/consolidation of monitoring results are time consuming and labor intensive;
• Monitoring results were not real time (reported to LDC a quarter after monitoring);
• Monitoring results could not be accessed by the public (online or offline)
Background/Challenges
Increasing Transparency, Accountability and CSO Participation in Government Projects: LGU Aleosan
Experience on *ODK-based Project Monitoring
By Jobe C. Tubigon, MTRM
Program Manager Mahintana Foundation, Inc
*ODK – Open Data Kit, set of tools for mobile data collection/monitoring
• Support of EU-funded RESOURCEGov Project, implemented by Mahintana in partnership with DILG 12 & Dole Philippines, Inc.;
• Introduction of ODK as project monitoring and transparency tool;
• Conduct of series of training on the installation, use and operations of ODK for project monitoring;
• Adoption/use of ODK by LGU for project monitoring using smartphones/tablets;
• Involvement of CSOs in project monitoring;
• Expansion of PMC membership to include more CSOs
Interventions
• Transparent, accountable & participatory monitoring of LGU projects/budgets
• Stronger and increasing participation/ partnership of/with CSOs in project monitoring
• Clear details and near real time status of projects being monitored
• Gathering/consolidation of monitoring results have become less time consuming and labor intensive
• Gathering near real time information has become easier, enabling LGU to act more responsively/quickly to slippages
• Monitoring results can now be accessed online by the public
Results/Impact
Key Replication Steps
http://resourcegovproject.wix.com/resourcegov/ http://mahintana.org; http://region12.dilg.gov.ph/
Letter of intent/resolution from legislative council/SB/SP Orientation on ODK-based project
monitoring/systems inventory SB/SP resolution adopting
ODK-based project monitoring
Preparation of Android devices (smartphones, tablets)
Courtesy calls to recipient barangays/areas
Review and transmission of data
EO creating/selecting/reorganizing the project monitoring committee
User’s training on ODK-based project monitoring/mock survey
Actual conduct of ODK-based project monitoring
Visualization/presentation of project monitoring results
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Pitch 9: Open Contracting Goes Local
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Outcomes Processes
US$9.5 Trillion
#1
Why open contracting?
• Exposed price-fixing scheme that increased costs by 45%
• Increased 14 suppliers to 46
• 700,000 meals served per day
Fixing school meals in Bogotá
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Pitch 10: Participatory Budgeting in Akhaltsikhe
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AKHALTSIKHE MUNICIPALITY Introducing VOLIS: VOLIS - an innovative digital tool for local democracy procedures; Akhaltsikhe Municipality started to implement one of its main function – Participatory Budgeting The project directly addresses Open Government Principles (transparency, accountability and civic participation) The project is great example of co-creation
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PB annual cycle
Civic engagement increases in decision making process, while local government becomes more transparent and
accountable.
Increased level of trust in society.
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Steps taken for implementing “Participatory Budgeting“ :
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Raise public awareness; Set up VOLIS for receiving proposals Jan, 2018 – May, 2018 - Introduced and promoted project using social networking sites and local media.
- Made special video and flyers with practical
information about “how to submit proposal“ - Mayor`s representatives informed local citizens about new tool and handed out
flyers with practical information in streets.
Local legislative act Jan, 2018
- Issued local legislative act, creating working
group responsible for PB implementation; - Working group consists of:
1 person from all departments of Akhaltsikhe municipality, who are in charge of implementation of projects and activities carried out by the organization.
Receive proposals Jan, 2018 – May, 2018
Discuss submitted proposals; Official summary; May 21, 2018 – May 28, 2018 - 38 proposals went to archive and 40 left for voting. - Official Summary can be found on the main page of VOLIS. The summary describes the reasons with arguments why some proposals were not valid for the further processing.
Citizens started to vote May, 2018 – Sep, 2018 - 70 votes received so far…
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Transparency
Accountability
Civic Participation
- Citizens have all necessary Information about the new project. The information about how to submit and how to vote for proposal is available on official web page of Akhaltsikhe municipality and on social web pages; - Official summary about the proposals is available on the main page of VOLIS. The summary describes the reasons with arguments why some proposals were not valid for the further processing. - Citizens are able to monitor the voting process, change their votes, comment proposals, share opinions, etc.
Municipality takes responsibility to: - Allocate certain amount of funds from the local budget for the project. - Provide justified arguments for the rejected proposals and the reasons why they don`t meet established criteria.
Citizens are able to: - Submit proposals about the problems they are mostly concerned about; - Vote for the proposals, monitor voting process, comment, share opinions, participate in decision making process directly via VOLIS;
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Pitch 11: The Love Triangle of Open Local Government
www.pormibarrio.cr
Human centered design process
Empathy
Embrace ambiguity
Learn from failure
+Info: http://www.designkit.org
Public Service Delivery= Multi Stakeholders
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Pitch 12: Abre: Opening Local Governments
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.tumunicipio.org
abre.tumunicipio.org
Final Voting Winner to present: Monday, July 16th 19:20-19:25 OGP Local Reception Tbilisi City Assembly Thursday, July 18th 17:00-18:00 (5 minutes) Open Government Going Local: Why is This a Turning Point? Funicular/Under the Wheel Three
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