Open government initiatives, which include not only transparency but also participation and collaboration efforts, have gained momentum worldwide. These initiatives coalesce in the multinational initiative known as the Open Government Partnership (OGP). But what is the state of OGP initiatives today? What has OGP accomplished thus far? These are only a couple of the questions that Prof. Suzanne J. Piotrowski, as an expert on the subject, will address during the upcoming lunchtime talk.
Speaker Bio
Suzanne J. Piotrowski is Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark. She earned a Ph.D. in political science from the School of Public Affairs at American University, Washington, D.C. and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Delaware. Professor Piotrowski is a past chair of the American Society for Public Administration’s Section on Ethics and Integrity of Governance. She founded and moderates the International Transparency and Secrecy Research Network listserv. She served as the conference chair and founder of the 1st Global Conference on Transparency Research (Rutgers University-Newark, May 2011). She has consulted with the World Bank Institute on an evaluation of Thailand’s Official Information Act and with the Carter Center on a project assessing how access to information differentially affects women. She served as the independent assessor of the United States national action plan for the Open Government Partnership (OGP). Her primary research project at the moment is a book project assessing the efficacy of the OGP in meeting its goals to supplant the historical tensions between performance and democratic accountability. Professor Piotrowski writes widely on public management, accountability, and transparency issues and publishes extensively in academic journals and edited volumes.
