Open Government Partnership met with reservations

Open Government Partnership met with reservations

The 46 countries at the initiative of the United States and Brazil agreed on Open Government Partnership (COP) for more transparency in administration and government has a hard time in Germany. Probably for lack of resources so far have neither the federal government still leading open-data organizations pledged. The Bertelsmann Foundation in Germany promotes civil society organizations for their cooperation. Eight organizations have approached the foundation, which will now contact other players.

Civil society Organisationn Open Data Network Association, Open Knowledge Foundation, Germany and Digital Society scare so far back in front of a commitment because it would involve much additional volunteer work they prefer to invest in specific projects. The business-related government 2.0 Network initiated by Germany and the Google Co: llaboratory to make. The Open Data Network participates in the meetings though, but the board could decide not to date of accession, as it is divided.

The anti-corruption organization GlobalIntegrity criticized that were half of the 40 participants who want to work with governments, IT companies, software vendors and developers. Most are already involved in open-data projects. This could mean that the COP will focus more on providing data agencies, rather than get involved in participation and transparency projects.

Frank Frick Bertelsmann Foundation in charge of "good governance", is still "wide open" whether the network in Germany ever comes about and whether the federal government will participate. They would bring the government program "Integrated and transparent management" more momentum, since they also support transparency in addition to citizen participation, accountability, combating corruption and civic engagement, says Frick. He also argued that classical systems representative government would be accepted in recent years fewer and fewer. The democratic system would need to be further developed by citizens can be better informed at an early stage to participate in political decisions.

Thomas Lang cable in Germany as a Microsoft National Technology Officer for the authorities responsible business, noted that back office systems will need to be well integrated, so the data without human and technical effort analyzed and made available. Microsoft is currently trying the German authorities of Cloud Computing to convince. Just open-data projects would offer to do that because they were not connected with security and privacy risks. Microsoft wants to represent the government data on its platforms such as Virtual Earth or Azure.

In December, held a first international conference COP. The Interior Ministry is still hesitating with the promise, probably because at present only three people to worry about "Open Data", and then only in passing. Long Cable believes that the related preparatory and coordination work is very high and probably would take at least half a year.

Anke Domscheit-Berg, active for his own company and for the Government Opengov.me 2.0 Network Germany, explains the reluctance of the federal government with the lack of commitment from political leadership. In addition, there were communication problems within the Federal Government: How was the invitation to the COP candidate Hilary Clinton arrived at the Foreign Office. But that was not technically responsible, but the Interior Ministry. So loud Domscheit Mountain time had been lost.