The Legislative Openness Movement: Prepared Remarks for the Open Senate Initiative of the Italian Senate

NDI Governance Director K. Scott Hubli, who co-chairs the Open Government Partnership's Legislative Openness Working Group, made remarks before the Italian Senate on March 9, 2017, in Rome, Italy. Find his full remarks here.

NDI currently serves as the co-chair, together with the Congress of Chile, of the Open Government Partnership's Legislative Openness Working Group, which now comprises 75 governments worldwide. In this capacity, NDI has worked to support a growing number of parliaments around the world as they seek to respond to a range of challenges, from increased citizen expectations of their representative institutions to rising populism and increased political polarization.