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I don’t have any doubt that giving our Press a lot of data to pore over will at times be uncomfortable for us in government. That’s why I’m issuing a call to arms to the media the world over to hold the feet of government officials and ministers like me squarely against the fire. Journalists everywhere need to engage with this data to expose waste, incompetence and corruption wherever they see it. The media - abroad as much as here - has a unique role. The key priority for the UK is to establish an Independent Reporting Mechanism to allow civil society groups and international experts to scrutinise OGP members. The danger is that they sign up to it on their own terms, reneging on commitments when it suits them.
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There’s every reason for governments to sign up to transparency. He will call on the media to work with civil society and international experts to scrutinise governments using a new Independent Reporting Mechanism. The minister will say that while it is the responsibility of governments to keep pushing public data out, it is for others to determine how that data should be used. The Partnership is a multilateral initiative for transparency of which Britain was a founder - it now has 57 members, covering a third of the world’s population. The media should be at the forefront of the international transparency movement, using the increasing amounts of open data released by governments to help drive prosperity, expose public corruption and waste, and hold governments to account, Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude will say.įrancis Maude will be speaking at a conference organised by the think tank Reform for the first anniversary of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), of which the UK is now lead chair.