This Executive Brief highlights the risk and challenges facing the transition to a more open government along with the benefits and opportunities of becoming more transparent and engaging.

Discover what's hampering success and learn how agencies through governance can deliver:

• Transparency helping the public to understand how government processes work, the impact of policy and public spending.
• Accountability ensuring government listens and takes responsibility for actions, decisions and performance.
• Participation enabling citizens to influence policy, processes and decisions. It protects those who highlight waste, negligence or corruption

Open government is the simple but powerful idea that governments and institutions work better for citizens when they are transparent, engaging and accountable.

Open Government Partnership