1. Open Government Partnership(OGP) Global Summit (7-9, December, Paris)

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Dear colleagues,

From December 7-9, 2016, France will host the Open Government Partnership Global Summit in Paris. Every two years representatives of government, academia, civil society, multilateral organizations, press, and others meet at the OGP Global Summit to exchange experiences, best practices, and progress on open government initiatives and implementation.

Registration is now open for the 2016 OGP Global Summit.

The OGP 2016 Global Summit will focus on building new alliances between governments, civil society, and other reformers. The objectives of the Summit are to promote exchanges, inspire reformers to raise their level of ambition, and for all stakeholders to collectively push the open government agenda forward to address new challenges and ultimately improve the lives of citizens around the world. We  expect to bring together more than 3,000 attendees of the most relevant stakeholders in the open government community, including heads of state, ministers from the 70 member countries, 15 subnational governments, academia, civil society, press, multilateral organization and other thought-leaders. The provisional program is available here and will be updated as the agenda is finalized.

The deadline to register is October 31. If you are requesting travel support, we encourage you to register as soon as possible. Criteria for determining participation and funding from the OGP Support Unit for civil society actors can be found here. Early registration is also encouraged since it'll help facilitate the visa process in time, and get access to hotel rooms before they are booked out.  

• You can also find information about summit venues, discounted hotels, and travel information for Paris on the Summit website. 
• Answers to frequently asked questions can be found here.
• For general inquiries about the summit, please contact: summit@opengovpartnership.org.
• For questions about sessions and proposals, please contact: sessions@opengovpartnership.org.
• For media requests please contact: communications@opengovpartnership.org

If you are working towards strengthening open government principles we invite you to participate in the 2016 OGP Global Summit! Please also do circulate this message amongst your colleagues and networks to whom this may be of interest.

Best wishes,

Shreya

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Shreya Basu
Regional Civil Society Coordinator for Asia and Pacific
Open Government Partnership Support Unit

e-mail: shreya.basu@opengovpartnership.org | skype: basushreya |  phone: +65 9023 0656 | twitter: @basushreya10 | www.ogphub.org | www.opengovpartnership.org |

Please note that emails exchanged with the OGP Support Unit may be subject to the OGP disclosure policy, which is available here.
 

2. UN World Data Forum (15-18, January, 2017, Cape Town)

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Dear Colleagues:  

We are very pleased to inform you that the first UN World Data Forum will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 15-18 January 2017, hosted by the Government of South Africa and Statistics South Africa.  

The Forum will bring together key experts from governments, businesses, civil society and the scientific and academic communities to discuss opportunities and challenges and showcase the latest innovations to improve data and statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 

Pre-registration for the Forum is now open at the following link: undataforum.org/WorldDataForum/registration/. On this same page you will find information regarding registration deadlines and opportunities to provide details about any innovative data initiatives or solutions that you would like to showcase at the Forum's innovation spaces.  

The Forum’s website at http://undataforum.org is being continuously updated with the latest news on the event programme and other useful information.  You can also follow updates via the twitter handle @UNDataForum. We would be grateful if you could share the information about the Forum with your professional networks. 

We hope you will be able to join the Forum and contribute to the success of this important event.  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to dataforum@un.org 
  
With my very best wishes, 

Stefan Schweinfest 
Director of the Statistics Division,  

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs