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Pioneer Program Extended Pioneer Program 2018 On September 20, 2017, the member nations of the Open Government Partnership Steering Committee met in New York City to discuss OGP's "Pioneer" program for local government, which is completing its pilot…
Council heard recommendations from staff on immediate and long term recommendations for improving meeting effectiveness and efficiency. On February 9, 2017, council discussed meeting changes with a related handout and passed Resolution 20170209-035…
Council took steps to manage their public meetings schedule and efficiencies by reducing the number of council committees from ten to five, and assigning members to the new committees. On February 16, 2017, Council voted to discontinue their Public…
In 2015, council implemented a 10 council-committee system as an initial experiment, complementing the January 2015 council change from 7 members (mayor & 6 council members) to 11 members (mayor & 10 council members). This committee system named each…
Meeting Date: 7/26/2017 2PM-3:30PM Attendees: Ginger Yachinich Kerry O’Connor Sabine Romero Sarah Smith John Spiers Brion Oaks Mateo Clarke Marni Wilhite Raymond Weyandt Introductions Our Independent Researcher - Raymond Weyandt!!! Workshop Debriefs…
See below news stories related to Commitment # 1: Community Impact: City identifies potential funding to address Austin's 'downtown puzzle' Austin Chronicle: The Mayor's Plan to Fix Everything Austin Monitor: Can an expanded convention center solve…
This tool was used at the June meeting of Austin's Open Government Partnership (OGP) commitment teams The Value of Project Reflection Reflection and retrospectives are important for any project, especially if they are done before the project is…
On May 10, 2017, the Austin Open Government Partnership team invited Alba Sereno and Ashley Fisher to visit the City of Austin Innovation Lab to discuss the topic of transparency. On May 10, 2017, the Austin Open Government Partnership team invited…
At the April 13 all-teams meeting, Angela Hanson did a demonstration of Insights -- a civic participation tool for your OGP toolbox. WHY AN INSIGHTS CAMPAIGN? Insights is a website that enables decision makers to ask a group of people one question…
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The City of Austin is proud to be an official member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) - an international organization dedicated to making governments more open, inclusive, and responsive. Use this page to keep up with the City's past and present OGP activities.