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Public Access to Information for Development

Author : Victoria L. Lemieux
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464808805
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Public Access to Information for Development written by Victoria L. Lemieux and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 100 right to information (RTI) laws—also called freedom of information or access to information laws—now in place globally, the groundwork has been laid to advance more transparent, accountable, and inclusive governance as a pathway to poverty reduction and economic development. This guide explores the historical development of RTI laws, the factors that drive passage and effective implementation of these laws, the operation of the laws, and the impact of these laws in different country contexts and sectors, as well as the challenges of measuring the contribution of RTI laws to development outcomes. Public Access to Information for Development: A Guide to the Effective Implementation of Right to Information Laws is based on two years of research studying how RTI has been implemented in countries in different regions and with varying income levels. The research has aimed to develop a theoretical framework by which to identify the drivers of effective implementation of RTI laws and to support measurement of effective implementation; the outcomes are discussed. This guide grapples with questions such as the following: • What does it mean to have effectively implemented an RTI law? • What aspects of a law have to be operational before it can be said to have been effectively implemented? • What other factors are most critical to the effective implementation of RTI laws? • Why does effective implementation of RTI matter?

The Right of Access to Public Information

Author : Hermann-Josef Blanke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662555549
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Right of Access to Public Information written by Hermann-Josef Blanke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comparative study on access to public information in the context of the main legal orders worldwide(inter alia China,France,Germany,Japan,Russia,Sweden,United States).The international team of authors analyzes the Transparency- and Freedom-to-Information legislation with regard to the scope of the right to access, limitations of this right inherent in the respective national laws, the procedure, the relationship with domestic legislation on administrative procedure, as well as judicial protection. It particularly focuses on the Brazilian law establishing the right of access to information, which is interpreted as a benchmark for regulations in other Latin-American states.

Troubling Transparency

Author : David E. Pozen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545800
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Troubling Transparency written by David E. Pozen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement’s canonical achievements. Yet while many view the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens to pursue the public good, FOIA is beset by massive backlogs, and corporations and the powerful have become adept at using it for their own interests. Close observers of laws like FOIA have begun to question whether these laws interfere with good governance, display a deleterious anti-public-sector bias, or are otherwise inadequate for the twenty-first century’s challenges. Troubling Transparency brings together leading scholars from different disciplines to analyze freedom of information policies in the United States and abroad—how they are working, how they are failing, and how they might be improved. Contributors investigate the creation of FOIA; its day-to-day uses and limitations for the news media and for corporate and citizen requesters; its impact on government agencies; its global influence; recent alternatives to the FOIA model raised by the emergence of “open data” and other approaches to transparency; and the theoretical underpinnings of FOIA and the right to know. In addition to examining the mixed legacy and effectiveness of FOIA, contributors debate how best to move forward to improve access to information and government functioning. Neither romanticizing FOIA nor downplaying its real and symbolic achievements, Troubling Transparency is a timely and comprehensive consideration of laws such as FOIA and the larger project of open government, with wide-ranging lessons for journalism, law, government, and civil society.

Right to Information

Author : Dr. K.B. Rai
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9351866084
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Right to Information written by Dr. K.B. Rai and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Right to Information Act is a unique act empowering the citizens of India and promote transparency and accountability in the working of the government. It applies to all states and Union Territories except Jammu and Kashmir. It has replaced the Freedom for Information Act. Every citizen of India should have the knowledge of this act; so that he/she is not coerced by the government. It is specially formulated in order to preserve the sanctity of democracy of the people. The act helps contain corruption and makes democracy work for the people in the real sense. An informed person is equipped to keep necessary vigil on the working of the government. Therefore; it is essential to have proper knowledge regarding it. At times the officers themselves find it difficult to decide upon. In order to help them easily find the decisions; they have been listed subject and section-wise. The book serves as a ready-reckoner of RTI Act.

Democracy and Transparency in the Indian State

Author : Prashant Sharma
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317623940
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Transparency in the Indian State written by Prashant Sharma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enactment of the national Right to Information (RTI) Act in 2005 has been produced, consumed, and celebrated as an important event of democratic deepening in India both in terms of the process that led to its enactment (arising from a grassroots movement) and its outcome (fundamentally altering the citizen--state relationship). This book proposes that the explanatory factors underlying this event may be more complex than imagined thus far. The book discusses how the leadership of the grassroots movement was embedded within the ruling elite and possessed the necessary resources as well as unparalleled access to spaces of power for the movement to be successful. It shows how the democratisation of the higher bureaucracy along with the launch of the economic liberalisation project meant that the urban, educated, high-caste, upper-middle class elite that provided critical support to the demand for an RTI Act was no longer vested in the state and had moved to the private sector. Mirroring this shift, the framing of the RTI Act during the 1990s saw its ambit reduced to the government, even as there was a concomitant push to privatise public goods and services. It goes on to investigate the Indian RTI Act within the global explosion of freedom of information laws over the last two decades, and shows how international pressures had a direct and causal impact both on its content and the timing of its enactment. Taking the production of the RTI Act as a lens, the book argues that while there is much to celebrate in the consolidation of procedural democracy in India over the last six decades, existing social and political structures may limit the extent and forms of democratic deepening occurring in the near future. It will be of interest to those working in the fields of South Asian Law, Asian Politics, and Civil Society.

The RTI Story: Power to the People

Author : Aruna Roy
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8193704916
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book The RTI Story: Power to the People written by Aruna Roy and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aruna Roy resigned from the IAS in 1975 to work with peasants and workers in rural Rajasthan. In 1990 she helped co-found the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS). The MKSS struggles in the mid 90s for wages and other rights gave birth to the now celebrated Right to Information movement. Aruna continues to be a part of many democratic struggles and campaigns. This book is a collective history that tells the story of how ordinary people can come together and prevail against great odds, to make democracy more meaningful.

Your Right to Federal Records

Author : United States. Department of Justice. Federal Citizen Information Center
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781612210674
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Your Right to Federal Records written by United States. Department of Justice. Federal Citizen Information Center and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act to obtain records from the federal government.

The Right to Information Act 2005

Author : Sudhir Naib
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199088225
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Right to Information Act 2005 written by Sudhir Naib and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian state till recently denied information about its functioning and decision-making to its citizens, ironically, using laws made during the colonial period. Apart from being an anomaly in a democratic set-up, it created an adverse impact on the quality of governance, accountability, and transparency. It was only in 2005, after a prolonged freedom of information movement, that this situation was finally rectified. The government enacted the landmark Right to Information Act 2005, and gave to all its citizens the right to access information held by or under the control of public authorities. This Handbook is meant to serve as a practical guide to the implementation of the Act. The book begins by locating the Act in the context of a global movement for freedom of information (FOI), and discusses the efforts made by international bodies for adoption of FOI. It also presents a detailed comparative study of FOI in five countries—the US, the UK, Canada, South Africa, and India. In subsequent chapters, the book adopting a step-by-step approach, discusses the provisions of the Right to Information Act, how citizens should make use of the right to information, the comprehensive guidelines for public authorities and their obligations under the Act, which includes relevant central information commission decisions, the role of the public information officers (PIO), who are to be appointed as per the provisions in the Act by all public authorities, the exemptions allowed under the Act, and, finally, the appellate authorities to whom a citizen can appeal in case of unsatisfactory response by the PIO.

Right to Information Act, 2005

Author : Suchi Pande
Publisher : NBT India
ISBN 13 : 9788123750750
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Right to Information Act, 2005 written by Suchi Pande and published by NBT India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World's First Freedom of Information Act

Author : Juha Mustonen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789529951925
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The World's First Freedom of Information Act written by Juha Mustonen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The People's Right To Know

Author : Frederick Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136689931
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The People's Right To Know written by Frederick Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important volume presents the pros and cons of a national service that will meet the information needs and wants of all people. In the preface, Everette E. Dennis, Executive Director of The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, asks, "What will a true information highway -- where most citizens enjoy a wide range of information services on demand -- do to local communities, government, and business entities, other units of society and democracy itself?" It is no longer a question of whether a vastly expanded "information highway" will be built in America. Telephone and cable companies have already inaugurated their plans, and government will most likely incorporate such plans into the economic development policy of the late 1990s. The key questions remaining are: Who will pay for it? and Whom exactly will it serve? The People's Right to Know suggests that serving the everyday citizen should be the main objective of any national initiatives in this area. It counsels that evolving electronic services are new communications media that should be deployed with a main focus on the public's needs, interests, and desires. If advances in the nation's public telephone network will make information services as easy to use as ordinary voice calls, or newspapers promise vast new electronic services awaiting their readers, more attention must also be devoted to the information needs and wants of everyday citizens. In our increasingly multicultural and technology-driven society, enormous inequities exist across America's socioeconomic classes regarding access to information critical to everyday life. If an information highway is to be effective, we need to ensure that all Americans have access to it; its design must start with the everyday citizen. This powerful new medium at our disposal must consider policy that includes attempts to close the information gap among our citizens. It must ensure equal access to data regarding job, education, and health information services; legal information on such topics as immigration; and transactional services that offer assistance on such routine but time-consuming tasks as renewing a driver's license or registering to vote. Media and telecommunications professionals, communication scholars, and policymakers, including two former chairmen of the Federal Communications Commission, provide insights and pointed commentary on the nature and shape of an information highway designed as a new public medium aimed at serving a wide range of public needs. Their work should improve our basis for deciding if there are means by which an enhanced public telecommunications network can benefit the everyday working American.

Access to Knowledge

Author : Fredrick Noronha
Publisher : Consumers International
ISBN 13 : 0956611745
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Access to Knowledge written by Fredrick Noronha and published by Consumers International. This book was released on 2010 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Access to Information and Documents as a Human Right

Author : Mariya Riekkinen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789521231865
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Access to Information and Documents as a Human Right written by Mariya Riekkinen and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Public service broadcasting

Author : Mendel, Toby
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231042041
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Public service broadcasting written by Mendel, Toby and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Open Sesame: Looking for the Right to Information in the Commonwealth (2003)

Author :
Publisher : CHRI
ISBN 13 : 8188205036
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Open Sesame: Looking for the Right to Information in the Commonwealth (2003) written by and published by CHRI. This book was released on with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974

Author : United States. Department of Justice. Privacy and Civil Liberties Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974 written by United States. Department of Justice. Privacy and Civil Liberties Office and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974," prepared by the Department of Justice's Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (OPCL), is a discussion of the Privacy Act's disclosure prohibition, its access and amendment provisions, and its agency recordkeeping requirements. Tracking the provisions of the Act itself, the Overview provides reference to, and legal analysis of, court decisions interpreting the Act's provisions.

The Right to Information in India

Author : Sudhir Naib
Publisher : Oxford India Short Introductio
ISBN 13 : 9780198089353
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book The Right to Information in India written by Sudhir Naib and published by Oxford India Short Introductio. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford India Short Introductions are concise, stimulating, and accessible guides to different aspects of India. Combining authoritative analysis, new ideas, and diverse perspectives, they discuss subjects which are topical yet enduring, as also emerging areas of study and debate. Access to information is indispensable to the functioning of any true democracy. An Indian citizen's right to information is guaranteed by Constitution of India and implicitly embedded in his right to the freedom and expression. Bringing together the major aspects of the Right to Information Act 2005, this book presents a clear and concise introduction to: -the evolution of the Act and the various privileges conferred under it, - the procedures involved in seeking information, - the duties of information suppliers, and - the kinds of information which are exempted from disclosure. Through in-depth comparative analyses of the law in various other parts of the world, it captures the strengths and drawbacks of the RTI Act, its success stories, and suggests policy measures to improve its implementation.