The OGP is a multi-national initiative dedicated to strengthening the principles of open and transparent government, enhancing co-creation and citizen engagement, fighting corruption, as well as fostering innovation in public service delivery.

The Minister addressed a high-level panel on "Rebooting the Public Service" during which she focused on the successes of South Africa's innovations, which are designed to bring the Government closer to the people and improve public service delivery performance.

"The OGP is an important platform to gain meaningful citizen engagement strategies that bring citizens closer to government and to also include them in important government decision-making platforms, from local to national level. The people's Government must be open, it must be transparent and it must be inclusive for it to truly be a government by the people for the people", Minister Dlodlo said.

The Minister was joined by the CEO of GovChat, Eldrid Jordaan. GovChat is South Africa's largest civic engagement platform, which enables citizens to speak directly to government and their elected public representatives at no cost, while also allowing government to receive critical service delivery-related feedback in real time. This platform is uniquely an OGP partnership, which the Government is pleased to be a part of.