Stephen Davenport is a Senior Governance Specialist currently leading the Digital Engagement Program at the World Bank. He is an International Development and Technology professional with more than 15 years of management experience including innovation, new product development, fundraising, marketing and communications, client relationship management, strategic product planning, and delivery in e-Government services for development.

More recently, he has been leading efforts in support of the global transparency, accountability, results, open data, open government and open development agendas. Through work in partnership with the USAID, World Bank, the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), Open Aid Partnership (OAP), Open Contracting Partnership (OCP), and the Open Government Partnership (OGP), he has established his organization as a leader and innovator in the open government space.

Other potential breakthrough innovations he has championed include the creation of the OpenGov Hub (www.opengovhub.org) in Washington, DC, the co-creation of FeedBack Labs (www.feedbacklabs.org), and AidData (www.aiddata.org).  

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