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Privacy and Surveillance are the Elephant in the Room at OGP Summit
Privacy, surveillance and the closing of political space for openness and transparency activists in many countries was the hot issue at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit in London that was left largely unaddressed by the OGP member countries present.
A group of civil society organizations have now responded to what they see as a lack of attention to these critical issues in the proceedings and commitments that comprise the OGP process. The OGP is a voluntary consortium of now 62 countries that was formed in 2011 to “provide an international platform for domestic reformers committed to making their governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. In all of these countries, government and civil society are working together to develop and implement ambitious open government reforms.”
The full article by Katrin Verclas was published on TechPresident and can be found here.