Today on September 20, in the frames of UN Assembly General the ceremony of opening of the Open Government Partnership initiative will be held. Nino Kalandadaze, Deputy Foreign Minister said.
She underlined that the Georgian delegation at this ceremony will be quite representative. The UN gives a possibility for Georgia to widen and deepen diplomatic relations with the UN member states.
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a new international initiative aimed at securing concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, increase civic participation, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to make government more open, effective, and accountable.
A multi-stakeholder International Steering Committee, co-chaired by the United States and Brazil in its inaugural year, is comprised of government and civil society representatives from around the world.
Together with partner nations and leading civil society organizations, OGP is a vehicle to further advance President Obama and Secretary Clinton's goals of strengthening democracy and human rights, fighting corruption, and harnessing technology and innovation to transform governance in the 21st century
