The document outlines the tenets of open government as transparency, civic participation, and accountability. It discusses objectives around strengthening openness, accountability, and civic participation in government through showcasing innovations from both developed and developing countries. The document also lists many countries that participate in open government initiatives and describes several open government programs and policies around information transparency, public resource management, and civic participation.

1. Tenets of Open Government
•Transparency
•Civic Participation
•Accountability

2. Open Government Objectives
• To strengthen and increase the visibility of new norms around
openness, accountability, and participation in government,
with leadership from a diverse coalition of countries.
• To showcase the leadership of both developed and developing
countries, highlighting innovations and creative best practices
with broad appeal, and facilitating the creation of
opportunities for countries to learn from one another and the
non-governmental sector.
• To secure concrete commitments that will make our
governments more efficient, effective, and responsive and
that signal our individual and collective embrace of open
government.
• Empower civil society as a critical partner in the effort to hold
government accountable and make government more
efficient, effective, and responsive to citizens.

3. Open Government Participants
• Albania • Jordan
• Azerbaijan • Kenya
• Bulgaria • Latvia
• Chile • Liberia
• Colombia • Lithuania
• Croatia • Macedonia
• Czech Republic • Malta
• Dominican Republic • Moldova
• El Salvador • Mongolia
• Estonia • Montenegro
• Georgia • Slovak Republic
• Ghana • South Korea
• Guatemala • Spain
• Honduras • Sweden
• Israel • Tanzania
• Italy • The Netherlands
• Turkey

4. Information Transparency:
• Mandated release of government information
• new websites making information searchable
and available to the public.
• More than 80 countries now have access-to-
information laws
• At least ten countries have national data
portals

5. Open Management of Public
Resources:
• Publicly available budgets and expenditures
• tracking delivery of services
• partnering with private groups to fight
corruption and improve government efficiency
• Payment transparency
• Disclosure of campaign finance spending
• disclosure of assets for public officials
• transparency of government operations

6. Open Innovation and Participatory
Government:
• participatory budgeting and community-
driven development
• Public engagement in open rule-making
• prize-backed challenges

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• These data are U.S economic
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country from 1946 to 2009. This
is the authoritative data set of
U.S. foreign assistance. The data
set is used to report U.S foreign
assistance to Congress as
required by the Foreign
Assistance Act, Section 634.
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