OpenRepublic.org
Title
Open Republic home
Description
The Open Republic Institute (ORI) is a source of public policy analysis and ideas that is independent of vested interests — whether public or private sector. Currently public policy in Ireland puts government — sometimes with added private-sector 'partnership' — at the centre of economic and social policy. This leads to errors. Examples include: government attempts to influence house prices, lack of competition in telecommunications, healthcare, aviation and key retail sectors and failures to achieve value for taxpayers' money in the management of public services generally and public projects specifically.
The ORI’s purpose is to create awareness of the role played by markets and private institutions — for example, businesses, the Internet, charitable organisations, the family and religion — in meeting economic and social challenges.
The ORI is interested in all public policy areas where markets or institutions with voluntary membership can play a role — from the regulation of financial institutions to Third World development. The ORI is neither a representative nor a political body. It has no corporate policy views of its own. It is an educational organisation providing access for policy-makers and the general public to new non-government and non-vested interest centred policy thought and debate.
