1. Tenets of Open Government Transparency Civic Participation Accountability

2. Open Government Objectives To strengthen and increase the visibility of new norms around openness, accountability, and participation in government, with leadership from a diverse coalition of countries. To showcase the leadership of both developed and developing countries, highlighting innovations and creative best practices with broad appeal, and facilitating the creation of opportunities for countries to learn from one another and the non-governmental sector. To secure concrete commitments that will make our governments more efficient, effective, and responsive and that signal our individual and collective embrace of open government. Empower civil society as a critical partner in the effort to hold government accountable and make government more efficient, effective, and responsive to citizens.

3. Open Government Participants Albania Azerbaijan Bulgaria Chile Colombia Croatia Czech Republic Dominican Republic El Salvador Estonia Georgia Ghana Guatemala Honduras Israel Italy Jordan Kenya Latvia Liberia Lithuania Macedonia Malta Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Slovak Republic South Korea Spain Sweden Tanzania The Netherlands Turkey

4. Information Transparency: Mandated release of government information new websites making information searchable and available to the public. More than 80 countries now have access-to- information laws At least ten countries have national data portals

5. Open Management of Public Resources: Publicly available budgets and expenditures tracking delivery of services partnering with private groups to fight corruption and improve government efficiency Payment transparency Disclosure of campaign finance spending disclosure of assets for public officials transparency of government operations

6. Open Innovation and Participatory Government: participatory budgeting and community- driven development Public engagement in open rule-making prize-backed challenges

7. U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants (Greenbook) Foreign Commerce and Aid foreign assistance, economic assistance, Greenbook U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants (Greenbook) These data are U.S economic and military assistance by country from 1946 to 2009. This is the authoritative data set of U.S. foreign assistance. The data set is used to report U.S foreign assistance to Congress as required by the Foreign Assistance Act, Section 634. 55,762 views

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9. To provide better service in alerting the American people to unsafe, hazardous or defective products, six federal agencies have created www.recalls.gov -- a "one stop shop" for U.S. Government recalls. Follow the tabs above to obtain the latest recall information, to report or find a specific recall, or to learn important safety tips via email.