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Do you believe in a more open government?


 * This site is a collaborative space for the Open Government communities in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
 * Here we will develop shared proposals and ideas for strengthening civil society's influence on opening up governments at the UK's devolved nation levels.
 * You can immediately start working on developing this wiki, whenever you want. No need to register or sign in, unless you want your ideas to be attributed to you.

Get involved now
Please be bold and use this site to write in your ideas on the following:
 * Explore the background and opportunity
 * Develop the overall plans and proposals
 * Develop the analysis and theory of change supporting this project

Develop the specific activity:


 * Developing capacity of civil society to influence open government
 * Developing learning on what works in opening up government for civil society activists across the UK, and internationally
 * Developing engagement between civil society and governments, in order to improve effective governance within the UK nations

Why get involved?
Your contributions here will directly shape the investment from various institutions, funding bodies and interested partners in helping to build civil society capacity around open government across the UK.

How to get involved:
 * Join the Open Government UK community
 * Or simply, start editing this wiki - click the edit link above (no wiki experience required)
 * See Miraheze FAQ if you want to get more technical.

Who is behind this site?
The site has been set up by Ruchir Shah, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

See list of core partners and our planned governance arrangements for this initiative.