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Around the world businesses are helping to develop innovative new ways of increasing government transparency and accountability. This session aims to: Highlight innovative partnerships between the public and private sectors to that use technology to assist transparent and accountable government and citizen engagement;

Highlight ways that civil society can work with the private sector to increase government accountability Encourage leadership from the private sector and civil society to advance the OGP's goals Explore incentives, motivations and obstacles to robust engagement by the private sector and civil society in support of OGP; Spur new ideas for how governments, corporations and civil society may partner to advance transparent and accountable government.

This discussion will provide a starting point for the first meeting of the Ad hoc task team to explore ways of incorporating the private sector into the OGP in the future.