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The Open Government Partnership's Final Austin Report is Now Online

OGP's Independent Reporting Mechanism team assessed Austin's 2017 commitment efforts, and their final report is now online:

https://www.opengovpartnership.org/documents/austin-final-irm-report-2017

Report highlights and conclusions:

• Our 2017 work included ambitious projects that centered on improving access to information and civic engagement in key priority areas like homelessness and equitable budgeting (p. 2)
• The report commends the city's public input process utilized to develop and implement the projects' work plan (p. 17, 22)
• Establishing the Homelessness Advisory Committee of Austin as part of the city's homelessness project created an unprecedented channel for including the views of individuals experiencing homelessness in public policy decisions  (p. 28)
• Researchers gave the city's Equity Assessment Tool the highest level designation as a "STAR" commitment for its specificity, relevance, transformative potential impact, and on time completion (p. 30)
• The open/smart collaboration project identified and shared an inventory of over 80 open government initiatives at the city, increasing public access to information and providing city departments with coordination opportunities (p. 39)
• The public meetings commitment is the only project that achieved the highest level of design specificity in every phase of its work (p. 43)
• Commendations for the online city project tracking tool, for providing one central location for a wide variety of otherwise decentralized updates (p. 50).

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the effort and Austin's great outcomes!