Transparency Research: The papers for the 3rd Annual Conference on Transparency Research, to be held in Paris Oct. 24-26 are now available.
- Hannes Meissner, ‘Functioning , Effects and Perspectives of Transparency Initiatives – The Example of Azerbaijan‘
- Luis Emilio Cuenca Botey & Laure Célérier, ‘Participatory Budgeting: a Bourdieusian Interpretation‘
- Tsvetelina Yordanova, ‘Transparency in Foreign Policy and International Relations‘
- Maarten Hillebrandt, ‘A Map without a Compass? Evaluating the Transparency-Democracy Fit in the Council of the EU‘
- Silvana Fumega, ‘Opening the Cities: Open Government Data in Local Governments of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay – Buenos Aires Preliminary Report‘
- Leopold Ringel, ‘The Uneasy Relationship of Organizations and Expectations of Transparency – A Theoretical Framework‘
- Carolyn Ball, ‘Indicators of Transparency and Trustworthiness in Nonprofits – Should we trust Nonprofits?‘
- Omar E. Hawthorne, ‘Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index: “best flawed”measure on Corruption?‘
- James H. Irving & Kimberley J. Smith, ‘Off-balance Sheet Arrangements, Transparency and the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis‘
- Robert Podolnjak & ?or?e Gardaševi?, ‘Great Expectations: The New Croatian Freedom of Information Act‘
- Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen & Jyldyz Kasymova, ‘A tale of empowering versus informing: a qualitative comparison of environmental transparency in New Jersey and the Netherlands‘
- Albert van Zyl “Greasing the Wheels of the Accountability System: How Civil Society Organizations close the Gap between Transparency and Accountability“
- Claudia Cappelli, Renata Mendes de Araujo & Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite, “Managing Transparency guided by a Maturity Model“
- Jenny de Fine Licht,”The Effect of Transparency in Decision Making for Public Perceptions of Legitimacy in different Policy-areas“
- Ezekiel Mbitha Mwenzwa, “Transparency and Accountability in Kenya: A Review of the Institutional Framework for Public Service Delivery“
- Michelle Gallant, “Lawyers and Money Laundering Regulation: Testing the Limits of the Secrecy in Canada“
- Mark Aspinwall, “Transparency and rule of Law: Conceptualizing the relationship“
- Albert J. Meijer “The History of Transparency: Analysing the Long-term Socio-Political Construction of Transparency in the Netherlands“
Nigeria: The Public and Private Development Centre has ranked the transparency of 15 public institutions in Nigeria based on their responsiveness to FOI requests for procurement information. See http://www.procurementmonitor.organd/ or view the table of rankings here: http://ow.ly/pPHzg
Environment: The Technical Secretariat of the Declaration on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean has released preliminary versions of the reports of the working groups created in the Plan of Action. These reports will be discussed in the third meetings of the Working Groups, to be held in Lima, Peru, on October 29, prior to the meeting of the signatory countries. These reports are available in the website: http://www.cepal.org/rio20/default.asp?idioma=IN For the preliminary version of the report of the working group on capacity-building and cooperation, click here. For the preliminary version of the report of the working group on access rights and regional instrument, please click here.
Open Data: A new book, Beyond Transparency, is a cross-disciplinary survey of the open data landscape, in which practitioners share their own stories of what they’ve accomplished with open civic data.
United States: The city of Chicago has launched the City of Chicago Data Dictionary, a single, comprehensive database catalog that contains detailed information on every data set held by City agencies and departments, how and if it may be accessed, and in which formats it may be accessed, GovFresh reports.
Research: A masters thesis by Geert Kamminga of the International and European LawUniversity of Groningen on the subject of Freedom of Information.
The summary in part:
In all human rights treaties freedom of information is protected within the provision of freedom of expression. But it is not protected similarly throughout the various human rights systems. In this paper, I analyze whether there is an obligation to disclose information on the side of the state under the various human rights jurisdictions. I will therefore compare a number of treaties, cases and soft law. To clarify the findings, I will introduce four types of obligations to disclose information on the side of the state. These types make a comparison between the different jurisdictions possible.
Also, I will argue why broad freedom of information legislation is necessary in modern society. Since there is a gap between lex lata and lex ferenda when it comes to freedom of information, I will present some suggestions how to make disclosure of information on the side of the state the rule, instead of the exception.
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