OGP Tblisi Workshop Proposal - Scotland and Spain

Introduction
The co-chair of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), The Prime Minister of Georgia, will host the 5th OGP Global Summit in Tbilisi, Georgia, on July 17-19, 2018​. Around 1,500 participants from more than 70 countries are expected to attend, including heads of state and ministers, public officials, members of parliament, local authorities, civil society representatives, international organizations, researchers, and journalists.

Delegates from OGP’s 75 participating countries are expected to exchange ideas on how they are making their governments more transparent, accountable, and responsive to citizens. This is also an opportunity to talk about goals, challenges, and best practices in the implementation of open government reforms to improve the lives of citizens around the world.

This proposal will aim to bring a Scottish civil-society led perspective into the conference, to share what we have learned from our experience as a young open government movement with bold ambitions for change at home and abroad. We want to develop this openly, and even if accepted, will continue to shape the format and planning of the session with the Open Government Network community in Scotland. All welcome to contribute!

Title of session
How to use open government to improve public services? How Scotland is linking open government with Sustainable Development Goals to reform health and social care.

Organisers (partners)
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Format of session

 * This proposal has been developed openly at https://opengovpioneers.miraheze.org/wiki/Scottish_Workshop_Proposal
 * Following a scene setting intro, the session chair will engage 3 speakers to spark off a discussion with the audience with 5 mins introductory remarks each.
 * Each speaker will then have an opportunity to ask one question of one of the other speakers to help frame the discussion.
 * Following this initial discussion, an expert moderator will broaden out the conversation to the audience, periodically returning to the chair to facilitate reflections from the speakers
 * Livestreaming arrangements - We plan to livestream this session from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSM3qRpFP8wmOpziYO8HhPQ

Objectives

 * Sharing Scotland's story on how we’re using Sustainable Development Goals to introduce Open Government principles and practice to a mainstream policy/public services audience
 * The session is designed to inform Scotland's Summer of International webinar programme, where open government reforms applied to public services will be explored openly, internationally and in detail.
 * A key output of this session will be a publicly available wiki page where key themes arising from this discussion will be developed further into proposals and actions with the wider open government community

Participants
Speakers (gender balanced):
 * Civil society discussant 1 - Experiences bringing open government reforms to health and care in Scotland through policy change
 * Civil society discussant 2 - How marginalised communities are using open government reforms to improve the health and care services that affects them
 * Guest discussant - OGP Steering group member bringing a wider international perspective on applying open government to public service reform

Audience:
 * Individuals with civil society backgrounds from campaigning and service delivery NGOs
 * Government representatives exploring how open government can transform engagement and delivery in public services. Scottish Government representatives have already agreed to participate.
 * Academics and think tanks seeking to assess what works in public service reform.

Expected outcomes
Improved understanding of the practical challenges to applying open government reforms to improve public services, using Scotland's health and care service as a case study.

A set of practical ideas on what works in supporting people to use open government approaches to engage progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.