The Government of Georgia will host the 5th OGP Global Summit in Tbilisi, Georgia, on July 17-19, 2018. The Summit will provide an excellent opportunity for leaders from OGP’s 76 participating countries, local governments, and beyond to exchange ideas on how they are making their governments more transparent, accountable, and responsive to citizens.
This session will unpack current efforts to push for a global norm around beneficial ownership transparency, explore exciting technologies (such as OpenOwnership) and take a sector specific look at the extractive industry. We will make a special focus on how companies can and have engaged on this issue. Overall, by reflecting on progress, our aim is to promote a next generation of BOT commitments for OGP, to advance this issue toward implementation and use of BOT in upcoming Action Plans.
Robin became Director of Governance & Transparency at The BTeam in April 2018. She has been working in the fields of governance,transparency and social justice for two decades, including engagement with theprivate sector in a range of multi-stakeholder initiatives.Previously, Robin... Read More →
Yunus Husein is the chair of Research Centre on Anti-Money Laundering (PUKAU) and also the former Chair of Indonesia's Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre.
Zosia Sztykowski is the coordinator for OpenOwnership, a new project to launch an open data registry of beneficial ownership information from around the world. With a background in cultural analysis and feminist organizing, Zosia is dedicated to effecting policy and shifting norms... Read More →
Governance Programs Director, Natural Resource Governance Institute
Erica leads NRGI’s portfolio of research, technical assistance, capacity development and advocacy on government and private sector policies and public oversight mechanisms that shape extractive sector governance. She is a lawyer and provides policy advice in resource-rich countries... Read More →
At the core of the relationship between citizens and the state are decisions about how public resources are raised and spent, and the results achieved. The budget is where the most important questions about the role of government are asked and answered. In countries where a significant portion of that budget also comes from external actors such as major international donors, the level of transparency of these organisations and their finance flows is also crucial. Greater levels of transparency are essential to ensure that public resources are being spent effectively and contribute to development outcomes.
Based on the findings of the latest Open Budget Survey and Aid Transparency Index, the event will provide a practical sharing of the challenges and opportunities identified by governments, donors and civil society organisations to connect aid and budget transparency with development planning, spending and outcomes. It will help identify implications and concrete next steps for the development of national strategies, action plans and partnerships.
This fishbowl event will feature speakers from government, civil society and donor organisations sharing good practices, experience and lessons learnt of promoting aid and budget transparency for development outcomes.
Oluseun Onigbinde is the Lead Partner of BudgIT, a civic organization he co-founded in 2011 which works to simplify access to government data and also drives institutional reform. He is a contributor to Data Journalism Handbook and also a member of the OpenSpending Wiki Group, an... Read More →
Non-State Actors Coordinator, Ministry of Finance & Development Planning
Carolyn Myers Zoduah is Coordinator of the Non-State Actors Secretariat at the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning in Liberia, where she manages the Civil Society and Social Accountability program under the Integrated Public Financial Management Reform Project. The program... Read More →
This session will explore the governance of digital platforms and social media and the impact that their misuse can have on society. This discussion is particularly important when considering the recent scandal of Cambridge Analytica in the US President elections, and the suspicions of foreign influence in political campaigns around the World. The event aims at raising awareness on recent events and discuss ways to reduce corruption risks in the Democratic process.
Fanny (@infofannny) is Access Now’s European Policy Manager based in Brussels. Previously, Fanny was International Privacy Fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. where she focused on E.U.-U.S. data transfers. For three years Fanny led the Freedom... Read More →
The objective of the panel is to lay down a logical chain of public procurement system transformation. The panel will gather reformers and CSOs to share experiences on how public procurement can be transformed into an effective instrument for making governments more accountable, transparent, fair and efficient, which tools can be used in this process and how CSOs and governments can collaborate on enhancing public procurement practices. Interested stakeholders will understand what steps were taken in countries that underwent reforms, how public benefits from open, transparent public procurement systems and learn how to use such tools vis-à-vis other public services.
Deputy Executive Director, Open Contracting Partnership
Kathrin is the Deputy Executive Director and Gavin’s co-pilot in leading the Open Contracting Partnership. Kathrin’s journey as a social entrepreneur started in an unlikely place – the World Bank Institute, the incubation lab of the World Bank. Kathrin worked in countries such... Read More →
Short Bio: David Marghania is public procurement reforms architect, electronic public procurement evangelist, advocate of openness and transparency. He has full scale international expertise in public procurement sector and hands-on experience of creation and successfully operation... Read More →
