The Open Government Partnership is a multilateral initiative established in 2011 that aims to secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance. The Australian Government has been a member of the Open Government Partnership since November 2015.

Member governments work with civil society to ‘co-create’ a National Action Plan every two years, with independent reporting on progress. Civil society is a term used by the Partnership to broadly refer to people and organisations outside of government, including non-government organisations, business, academia, community groups and the public.

This third Open Government Partnership (OGP) National Action Plan for 2024–25 (the Plan) is focused on delivery of 8 commitments to improve public participation and engagement in government, strengthen government and corporate sector integrity and enhance Australia’s democratic processes. Specifically, the commitments in this Plan will:

• Commitment 1 - Create transparency in the use of automated decision making and responsible use of artificial intelligence.
• Commitment 2 - Improve public participation of youth in government.
• Commitment 3 - Further strengthen integrity within the Commonwealth public sector.
• Commitment 4 - Build a pathway towards a beneficial ownership register.
• Commitment 5 - Increase accountability and transparency in procurements and grants.
• Commitment 6 - Improve protections for public sector whistleblowers.
• Commitment 7 - Strengthen transparency in political donations and political advertising.
• Commitment 8 - Improve media literacy in culturally and linguistically diverse communities, including to counter the impacts of mis- and dis-information.