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2020 Blogs

Transit Planning 4 All releases the Inclusive Planning Guide Transit Planning 4 All (TP4A) has released an updated “Inclusive Planning Guide,” detailing a five phase process on how to better include older adults and people with disabilities in the…
Nathaniel Heller, former OGP Co-Chair, visited Austin in 2015 and made predictions for 2020. Here is his follow-up. In 2015, as the City of Austin prepared to join the Open Government Partnership, OGP's Nathaniel Heller spoke at the City of Austin's…
Council calls on OGP Commitment collaborators to provide guidance In these unprecedented times, Austin City Council is carefully balancing both the immediate, urgent efforts of Covid-19 response and future efforts that will employ our community and…
Blog posts related to Action Plan 2's Commitment 8 are linked below: Preventing Transportation Investment-Related Displacement https://www.austintexas.gov/blog/preventing-transportation-investment-related-displacement Inclusive Transportation…
Progress, challenges, and opportunities ahead! On March 13th, GAVA and the City of Austin Office of Sustainability convened an online update on GAVA's commitment progress, the Kresge grant GAVA received to support their work, and the city's OGP…
OGP Events Postponed From OGP Chief Executive Officer, Sanjay Pradhan: ******** Dear OGP Community: Open government thrives when people come together in dialogue and work to co-create and implement reforms that bring governments closer to their…
The 2019 Report Summarizes Impact and Next Steps OGP released its first comprehensive assessment of the state of open government. This report provides a thorough and honest review of progress made by OGP member countries in the first eight years of…
OGP's Patrick Kazyak Connects With City and Civil Society Leaders The Open Government Parntership's Patrick Kazyak visited Austin this month, spending quality time with city government and civil society participants working on each of Austin's…
Blog posts related to Action Plan 2's Commitment 9 are linked below: Webinar on Increasing Justice Access https://www.austintexas.gov/blog/webinar-increasing-justice-access Austin's Public Safety Data Commitment Contributes to City's Bloomberg Data…