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…
Blog posts related to Action Plan 2's Commitment 6 are linked below: Action Plan 2 Reflections: Displacement Mitigation https://www.austintexas.gov/blog/action-plan-2-reflections-displacement-mitigation GAVA Provides Community Climate Resilience…
Justice is an emerging area in open government. Thanks to increased global activity around access to justice, there is growing interest by many governments and civil society organizations to better link justice with open government, and to use the…
Blog posts related to Action Plan 2's Commitment 7 are linked below: Action Plan 2 Reflections: Resilience https://www.austintexas.gov/blog/action-plan-2-reflections-resilience OGP Spotlights Austin's Contracting & Homelessness Commitment https://www…
Bringing open contracting to the community, Austin launches competitive contracts with input from those experiencing homelessness Downtown Austin Community Court (DACC) is championing Austin's current Open Government Partnership open contracting…
The Open Government Partnership has made changes to the local governments program OGP launched the Subnational Pilot Program (later renamed OGP Local) in 2016, recognizing that many open government innovations and reforms are happening at the local…
$100,000 grant will support GAVA's OGP efforts The Kresge Foundation awarded Go Austin Vamos Austin $100,000 to advance policy solutions aimed at improving climate resilience and equitably reducing health risks in low-income communities in America’s…
The City of Austin Open Government Partnership team gathered on June 18th at Open Austin's monthly Community Action Night to share feedback from the international summit and updates on our projects. Carmen Llanes Pulido from Go Austin Vamos Austin…