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Navigating openness, reforming business process
While in many countries, the government becomes more open and transparent, in other places, public trust in the government is declining and extremism is rising.
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Openness is vital for the government in recruiting, training and deploying health workers. (Shutterstock/File)
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an open government help eradicate poverty? How does it restore public trust in the government? To what extent can open government improve the quality of public service delivery? Why does openness count in ensuring environmental sustainability? Does open government impact development at all?
Those were some of the major questions addressed in the Asia Pacific Leaders Forum (APLF) on Open Government in Jakarta last week. The outcome provided a clear directive forward: open government does not just foster development. It is both the necessity for and the substance of development itself.
In facing challenges such as poverty, the shrinking of civic space, environmental degradation and poor public service delivery, openness in a government becomes an inherent indicator. The question is, how should we rationalize such a directive?
The success of open government rests on the operating environment. As a global movement, Open Government Partnership (OGP), founded back in 2011, aspires to provide a platform where the government and civil society can collaborate and create inclusive governance.
