The Australian Government will release its decision on how Australia’s first Open Government Multistakeholder Forum will be appointed, structured and run via the OGP Australia website, ahead of a nominations process to commence the week of 29 May, 2017. A Multistakeholder Forum will be established by the of June 2017. Appendix A: Models considered for Australia’s first Multistakeholder Forum Model Structure of Selection of Currently Issues group members exists? Civil Society Steering Open to any Yes – Australian Breadth of Network: Committee of individual or civil Open membership. Coalition of civil 5 – 9 members. society Government Difficulties engaging society Convener organisation. Partnership Civil government. organisations and responsible for Civil society Society individuals. administering selfselects. Network. the network. Hub-and-spoke: Government Government No. May be difficult to Network of provides selects based on bring views together. smaller forums secretariat set criteria Requires additional (e.g. broken support. based on administrative down by sector, expertise and/or support. thematic areas or by invitation. commitments), Rotating chairs. which may be coordinated by a central committee. Public interest Independent Membership No. Similar to May have too broad peak body: Peak, from and modus the Business a remit to be able to non-government Government operandi should Council of undertake all the structure to and business. be decided Australia. functions required coordinate through by the OGP. dialogue on consultation Government’s role public interest across civil to establish a peak issues. society. group? Single forum Equal Members Yes – Interim Breadth of model: Convenes government and selected based Working Group. membership. May government and on set criteria. This group could lack subject matter civil society in Government be extended or expertise on some one formally representation. and topics. Need
The Australian Government will release its decision on how Australia’s first Open Government Multistakeholder Forum will be appointed, structured and run via the OGP Australia website, ahead of a nominations process to commence the week of 29 May, 2017. A Multistakeholder Forum will be established by the of June 2017. Appendix A: Models considered for Australia’s first Multistakeholder Forum Model Structure of group Selection of members Currently exists? Issues Civil Society Network: Coalition of civil society organisations and individuals. Steering Committee of 5 – 9 members. Convener responsible for administering the network. Open to any individual or civil society organisation. Civil society selfselects. Yes – Australian Open Government Partnership Civil Society Network. Breadth of membership. Difficulties engaging government. Hub-and-spoke: Network of smaller forums (e.g. broken down by sector, thematic areas or commitments), which may be coordinated by a central committee. Government provides secretariat support. Government selects based on set criteria based on expertise and/or by invitation. Rotating chairs. No. May be difficult to bring views together. Requires additional administrative support. Public interest peak body: Peak, non-government structure to coordinate dialogue on public interest issues. Independent from Government and business. Membership and modus operandi should be decided through consultation across civil society. No. Similar to the Business Council of Australia. May have too broad a remit to be able to undertake all the functions required by the OGP. Government’s role to establish a peak group? Single forum model: Convenes government and civil society in one formally Equal government and representation. Members selected based on set criteria. Government and Yes – Interim Working Group. This group could be extended or Breadth of membership. May lack subject matter expertise on some topics. Need
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