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Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2012 (ISSN 1741-4431)

Leading by example? Brazil and the Open Government Partnership

On 17-18 April Brazil hosted the first annual meeting of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). Activists, civil servants, politicians and journalists from the 62 countries so far signed up to the new initiative attended the summit, held in Brasília. The OGP was launched in Autumn 2011 in New York, as a joint initiative of Brazil and the US, with six other countries signing up at the outset (Mexico, Norway, the UK, Philippines, Indonesia and South Africa). Ambitiously, the OGP hopes to shape the global transparency agenda, but already there are doubts about legitimacy and implementation. When Brazil agreed to co-chair the OGP, it did not even have a freedom of information law on its statute books (it now does), and the federal government was not particularly keen on transparency initiatives (it now seems to be). Sceptics wonder whether Brazil, as a relative novice in this field, is best placed to lead the immediate region, never mind the wider world, towards a new era of transparency. In this special focus we explore the challenges facing Brazil in leading the OGP agenda.

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