http://xml.gov/stratml/drybridge/ODEPS.xmlAn Open Declaration on European Public ServicesAn Open Declaration on European Public ServicesODEPS_31a46c26-f30b-4b5a-8985-19eb656de742Who We Are David Osimo, Tech4i2 ltd. Paul Johnston, Cisco and www.theconnectedrepublic.org Supporters/Members of the Organising Committee: Alberto Cottica, Soren Duus Ostergaard, Jack Thurston, David Price, Justin Kerr-Stevens, Lee Bryant, Jose M. Alonso , William Heath, Ton Zijstra , Jonathan Gray,Alexander Schellong, Cesar Calderon, Alberto Ortiz de Zarate, Eleonora Panto’, Tom Steinberg, Dave Briggs , Ana Pinto Martinho, Giustino Trincia , Ann Mettler , Carlos Guadian , Matt Poelmans, Nadia El-Imam, Madarász Csaba plus you and anyone who want to help! This activity is a direct outcome of the Public Services 2.0 workshop in Brussels, where some of us felt the need to engage directly with EU policies, which are currently being revised. We do this autonomously, on our time and money, using freely available tools and outside the control and endorsement of the European Commission. But we aim to get this endorsement as soon as possible, while keeping full independence on the content. The needs of today’s society are too complex to be met by government alone. While traditional government policies sought to automate public services and encourage self-service, the biggest impact of the web will be in improving services through collaboration, transparency and knowledge-sharing._84d6eb7d-095c-4ced-beb9-64b99225c7efTo enable Europe to grasp the opportunity to rebuild the relationship between citizens and the state by opening up public institutions and by empowering citizens to take a more active role in public services._1c5576a8-3490-4c20-a790-94972c81244aTransparencyAll public sector organisations should be “transparent by default” and should provide the public with clear, regularly-updated information on all aspects of their operations and decision-making processes. There should also be robust mechanisms for citizens to highlight areas where they would like to see further transparency. When providing information, public sector organisations should do so in open, standard and reusable formats (with, of course, full regard to privacy issues).ParticipationGovernment should pro-actively seek citizen input in all its activities from user involvement in shaping services to public participation in policy-making. This input should be public for other citizens to view and government should publicly respond to it. The capacity to collaborate with citizens should become a core competence of government.EmpowermentPublic institutions should seek to act as platforms for public value creation. In particular, government data and government services should be made available in ways that others can easily build on. Public organisations should enable all citizens to solve their problems for themselves by providing tools, skills and resources. They should also treat citizens as owners of their own personal data and enable them to monitor and control how these data are shared.Insight[Provide] citizens ... full insight into all the activities undertaken on [their] behalf._9024cb3b-5e8b-4739-bf41-9bb5fe8f248b1CitizensCitizens of EuropePublic OfficialsAs citizens, we want full insight into all the activities undertaken on our behalf._4f8cf842-5c78-11e0-9aa8-0f357a64ea2aPublic Policies[En]able [citizens] to contribute to public policies as they are developed, implemented, and reviewed._23c93461-bbae-4080-aad4-0a49176c8d482CitizensCitizens of EuropePublic Policy-MakersWe want to be able to contribute to public policies as they are developed, implemented, and reviewed._4f96fb08-5c78-11e0-9aa8-0f357a64ea2aPublic ServicesActively involve [citizens] in designing and providing public services with extensive scope to contribute our views and with more and more decisions in [their] hands._02cf2a5f-08ac-4355-8a86-8b785fd1c2173CitizensCitizens of EuropePublic Service ProvidersWe want to be actively involved in designing and providing public services with extensive scope to contribute our views and with more and more decisions in our hands._4f96fc0c-5c78-11e0-9aa8-0f357a64ea2aGovernment InformationMake the whole spectrum of government information from draft legislation to budget data easy for citizens to access, understand, reuse, and remix._77c2f377-5d0a-48ba-ac45-2795a1b8695c4CitizensCitizens of EuropeGovernment Information ProvidersLaw-MakersWe want the whole spectrum of government information from draft legislation to budget data to be easy for citizens to access, understand, reuse, and remix._4f96fd42-5c78-11e0-9aa8-0f357a64ea2aPublic Services and Decision-MakingMake public services better and improve the quality of decision-making._4a42ea85-69b2-45d7-8af2-7977ae80c93a5CitizensCitizens of EuropePublic OfficialsDecision-Makers and Service ProvidersThis is not because we want to reduce government’s role, but because open collaboration will make public services better and improve the quality of decision-making._4f96fdd8-5c78-11e0-9aa8-0f357a64ea2a2010-02-08http://eups20.wordpress.com/the-open-declaration/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net