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Notice of 2025 AGM featuring Matheson Russell

Trust Democracy is pleased to announce that its 2025 Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday 12 May at St Andrew’s on The Terrace, 30 The Terrace, Wellington, and via Zoom, and will feature an address by Associate Professor Matheson Russell on the topic ‘More Referenda, Better Democracy?’

Film fundraiser for Democracy Experiment in Porirua

5.45-8.00pm, Monday 27 January, Lighthouse Cuba

Wellington U3A presentation, 25 October 2024

Whither Open Government in New Zealand?

At a U3A Wellington City session on 25 October 2024, Keitha Booth, a Trust Democracy member and international open government reviewer, explored how countries use their Open Government Partnership (OGP) memberships to systematically work with civil society to improve democratic participation, accountability and transparency, including through the use of technology. Now that the NZ Government has decided to remain in the OGP, she suggests ways to reinvigorate NZ’s open government programme based on her independent reviews of four OGP members and Taiwan, thus ensuring that open government in NZ does not continue to wither.

2 weeks into 2025, 2 submissions: What’s 2025 going to be like?

This post notes the frantic start to 2025 and provides summary highlights of Trust Democracy’s 2024.

Taiwan’s Open Government National Action Plan 2021-2024 Results Report

Following consultation, Keitha Booth, an experienced reviewer of Open Government Partnership national action plans and a Trust Democracy member, is pleased to publish the Independent Results Report for the Taiwan Open Government National Action Plan 2021-2024.

Leveraging Local Government’s Superpower

Trust Democracy Committee member Anna Curnow describes how local government is starting to embrace more deliberative and participatory approaches for its “superpower” of being close to its communities.

The signing of a memorandum of understanding between the OECD and OGP

Mixing Democracy and Pleasure

Trust Democracy’s Chair, Simon Wright, reflects on attending the 2024 OECD Global Forum on Building Trust and Reinforcing Democracy in Milan.

Emily Beausoleil speaks to Trust Democracy’s AGM

Watch the video or read the transcript of Dr. Emily Beausoleil speaking to Trust Democracy’s 2024 AGM on whether democracy in settler-colonial societies like ours is a weapon or a tool. Download her presentation slides and access Trust Democracy’s AGM reports, statements and minutes.

The Future of Democracy: John Gastil’s visit to New Zealand

Listen to interviews Prof John Gastil recorded while in New Zealand and find out about the events he presented at on the future of democracy and promising democratic innovations in Auckland and Wellington in June 2024.

Keitha Booth & Mei Jen on NDC OGP webpage

Taiwan’s Open Government Co-Creation Brief 2024

Keitha Booth, who is a Reviewer for the Open Government Partnership Independent Review Mechanism and a Trust Democracy member, announces the publication of the Taiwan Open Government Co-Creation Brief 2024.