Georgian Parliament hosts international conference on transparency

Officials from about 20 countries are in Tbilisi to participate in an international conference about legislative openness.

Parliament of Georgia is hosting the two-day Open Government Partnership’s (OGP) Legislative Openness Working Group (LOWG) conference.

The OGP is a multilateral initiative of the United States and Brazil, in which 63 governments work together with citizens to promote transparency, fight corruption and use technology as an enabler of governmental openness.

The two-day forum Openness Obligation: the Parliamentary Action Plans, Standards and Tools focused on the progress of the working group in terms of legislative openness, including development of Open Parliament action plans and Open Parliamentary Data International norms and standards establishment aspects.

Georgia’s Parliament Speaker David Usupashvili opened the event and said the conference aimed at sharing open governance experience between the participants.

The first day of the event was attended by legislative and executive representatives of various countries and civil society leaders, including the high-ranking Parliamentary delegations from Georgia, Albania, Armenia, Croatia, Brazil, Latvia, Lithuania, Jordan, Malta, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine, and participated by up to 70 foreign delegates from about 20 countries.

The Georgian Parliament’s press office said bilateral meetings of the guest delegations were also scheduled within the conference.