August 29, 2013
Measuring OGP Initiatives’ Impacts
A debate about Measuring OGP Initiatives’ Impacts – A Proposal of an Assessment Model
Proposed by the Center of Studies on ICT (CETIC.br) at Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br) and W3C Brazil.
Description:
The principles and objectives set forth by Open Government Partnership has enabled governments to create “Action Plans” aimed at producing relevant technological and legal/ political artifacts that impacts society (Citizens, Enterprises and Government). In this panel we intend to discuss the importance of defining an assessment model and a set of indicators that can measure both performance of action plans and the use and adoption of artifacts (technological and legal/ political) produced by OGP initiatives at the country level.
The proposed model presented below identify three relevant areas of measurement: i) Gap Measurements to measure the alignment between action plan at country level against the OGP framework level; ii) Performance Measurements to measure the level of accomplishments of proposed actions (costs, milestones, communication, etc); and iii) Impact Measurements to measure the use and adoption of artifacts resulted from the action plans.
The focus of this presentation will rely on the discussion of a set of indicators to the area of measurement related to the Impact Measurements. Based on existing nationwide ICT Surveys already in place in Brazil, we intend to discuss a set of indicators that can be embedded in ICT Households Survey, ICT Enterprises Survey and ICT e-Gov Survey to measure the use and adoption of existing outcomes being produced by government´s action plan.
Objectives and Questions Answered:
- Demonstrate the methodology and indicators of the proposal.
- Instigate the participants to make effort on defining an OGP Initiative assessment model.
- Propose collaborative construction and knowledge sharing among the participants.
The question proposed:
- What should be the set of indicators to capture OGP´s initiative impacts in society?
