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Implementing Open Government: Lessons from Germany

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Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia (EGOSE 2020)

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Open Government encourages transparent, collaborative, and participatory governmental and administrative actions to promote a public administration that is effective, responsive and innovative. Germany signed up for Open Government Partnership in 2016 and since then it has promulgated two national action plans. Through its grass-roots level initiatives targeted at municipality and regional level German government wishes to enhance relation with its public. This paper aims at examining the German experience of initiating Open Government by reviewing the policy instruments at play and lessons that are involved in the implementation of this broadly government shaping movement. The paper first attempts to analyse the building blocks of German strategy that led to the first and later second National Action Plan for Open Government implementation. It also looks at important initiatives for enhanced citizen participation at the regional level, providing a best practice example. The paper concludes by sharing some important lessons that can not only be learnt for Germany itself but also for aspiring fellow Eurasian states and municipalities pursuing Open Government.

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  1. Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

    Charlotte Lydia Bock

  2. University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

    Hasnain Bokhari

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  1. eGovernance Center, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

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  2. North-West Institute of Management, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), St. Petersburg, Russia

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  3. eGovernance Center, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Yuri Misnikov

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Bock, C.L., Bokhari, H. (2020). Implementing Open Government: Lessons from Germany. In: Chugunov, A., Khodachek, I., Misnikov, Y., Trutnev, D. (eds) Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia. EGOSE 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1349. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67238-6_9

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