Fostering a community of practice among parliamentary budget offices of the Commonwealth

Discusses the Seminar on Open Government, held in Montreal in June 2013 as the result of collaboration between McGill University and the World Bank Institute; it brought together parliamentary budget officers (PBOs), parliamentarians, academics etc from over a dozen countries from within the Commonwealth and beyond. Delegates assisted one another in the establishment of PBOs and shared what they had learned from their personal experiences, and the GNPBO (Global Network of Parliamentary Budget Officers) promised to forge a "highly interactive and cooperative community that will bolster inter-Commonwealth and international efforts to improve legislative transparency".