Open Government Public Policy Proposal

"Open Government Public Policy Proposal"

The Open Government model is based on three main pillars: 1) transparency and access to information for accountability, 2) citizen participation, and 3) co-creation, which reflect a new understanding of governance. The foundations of the Open Government Partnership stem from the “Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government,” which identified the pillars for driving government transformation worldwide. The Obama administration launched the Open Government Partnership in 2009, establishing the following principles:

To promote deliberative democracy at the levels of administration and decision-making.

To make visible all processes with the capacity for constant renewal and improvement, based on interaction and feedback with citizens.

Move from a clientelistic logic to a logic of collaboration and co-creation with citizens.

Abandoning pyramidal institutional designs to adopt new horizontal and networked structures.

Introduce results-based work logics with transparency and open data logics.

Introduce logics of data consumption and citizen interaction.

This model stems from the need to promote effective citizen involvement in public affairs, which differs from traditional citizen participation and public consultations because it seeks to foster interaction, conversation, and two-way dialogue between public actors and citizens, where power, information, and mutual respect are shared in public decision-making (Sheedy, 2008). Open government, which promotes effective strategies for citizen involvement, goes beyond processes based on assumptions of digitizing processes, procedures, and citizen services.