Del from 6 to 10 October 2025, Spain hosted theIX Global Summit of the Alliance for Open Government, held in Vitoria-Gasteiz, capital of one of the six Autonomous Communities belonging to OGP Local, Basque Country.It has involved more than 2,000 experts and world leaders who have exchanged experiences, good practices and advances in open government initiatives and implementation on key issues. The holding of the Summit has helped to strengthen Spain’s position on transparency and citizen participation.

The IX Global Summit of the Alliance for Open Government is the final touch of the Spanish co-presidency of the Steering Committee of the Open Government Alliance.

Video of the 9th Summit

Related information:

• Official page of the IX Global Summit of the Open Government Alliance.
• Agenda
• Registration for the 9th Global Open Government Partnership Summit.
• Consultation process to gather priorities and concerns for the elaboration of the Summit agenda.
• Royal Decree establishing the Organizing Committee of the IX Global Summit of the Open Government Alliance (pdf)
• Constitutive meeting of the organizing committee of the IX Global Summit of the Alliance for Open Government
• Second meeting of the organizing committee of the IX Global Summit of the Open Government Alliance. June 23, 2025.
• Programme
• Link to the Press release of the approval of the Organizing Committee of the IX Global Open Government Summit
• Link to announcement of the seat of the Summit

BUILDING THE AGENDA OF THE 9TH GLOBAL OPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP SUMMIT

Following the principles of Open Government, which promote participation and collaboration between public administrations, civil society and citizens, a consultation process is opened to gather the priorities and concerns of the global community. This process will serve as the basis for the elaboration of the Summit ' s agenda.

Through this platform, they will be able to:

• Prioritize The topics proposed by voting for the most relevant.
• Enrich Existing ideas adding comments and suggestions.
• Propose New topics if they identify aspects not yet covered in the discussion.

The consultation is organized into ten thematic areas aligned with the themes of the Open Government Challenge. Within each area, you can comment on and propose topics that you feel should be included in the agenda.

We also invite you to express your interest in organise a thematic session, participate as a speaker or coordinate a side event, completing the registration form on this platform.

• The participatory process ended on March 14

Your contribution will help build an inclusive, impactful and community-based agenda. Let’s build this Summit together! See you in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Eskerrik asko!

• You can consult the result of the consultation here
  

BACKGROUND

It includes 76 countries and more than a hundred regional and local governments, and thousands of civil society organizations, representing more than two billion people, More than 3,000 commitments in open government.

Spain has been part of OGP at a national level since the year of its foundation (2011), Being one of the countries with the highest number of regional and local members: Basque Country (2018), Catalonia (2020), Aragon (2020), Valencian Community (2022), Asturias (2022), Navarre (2024), Madrid City Council (2016).

The OGP aims at collaboration between governments, civil society and citizens, through the exchange of innovative methodologies in the implementation of concrete and measurable commitments, initiatives and Open Government activities through ACTION PLANS (currently finalizing the IV Open Government Plan, and the V Plan is in the co-creation phase). The plans are subject to double evaluation mechanisms (internal and external, expost evaluation by the Independent Review Mechanism, MRI )