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  • 1 July 2011

    Conferees Discuss FOIA Reforms in Dominican Republic

    By Natalia Torres, CELE´s Senior Researcher
    Articles on freedom of information in Latin America, written by the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information  (CELE) in Argentina, will be a regular feature in FreedomInfo.org. See this article…

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  • 1 July 2011

    Ley modelo y legislación local en Dominicana

    By Natalia Torres, Investigadora Principal del CELE.
    El pasado 9 y 10 de junio se realizó en Santo Domingo el Seminario Internacional “Ley Modelo Interamericana sobre Acceso a la Información y su aplicación en República Dominicana”.  El seminario, organizado por…

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News Archive

  • 9 January 2010

    IMF Barely Modifies Disclosure Policy

    After an opaque review process, the International Monetary Fund January 8 announced modest changes to its disclosure policy, but retained the major impediment to disclosure, allowing governments to prevent release of documents pertaining to their countries.
    This power prevents the…

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  • 2 December 2009

    World Bank Cautious on Media Development

    The goal of strengthening the media as one way to fight corruption was adopted by the World Bank in 2006, but the promise has gone virtually unfulfilled, according to research by freedominfo.org.

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  • 7 October 2009

    Saber Mas: New Report on Access to Information in Latin America

    Open government advocates offer first-hand accounts of FOI promotion in Latin America
    Latin America’s leading open government advocates recently released a report, bringing together data from 17 countries and offering new findings on the status of freedom of information in…

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  • 22 March 2006

    Freedom of Information Laws Added to the Development Agenda

    By Toby McIntosh
    Riding a wave of transparency, the idea of encouraging Freedom of Information (FOI) laws as part of the development agenda is gaining currency, but slowly.
    With research and case studies increasingly identifying transparency as a key tool…

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links

LEGAL DOCUMENTS Ley No.200-04 - Ley General de Libre Acceso a la Información Pública (Law number 200-04 - Law on Access to Information) on 28 July 2004. In Spanish)
OTHER RESOURCES
 
A 2009 study on compliance with the law
   

measuring openness

Freedom House, Freedom in the World, 2010 (On scale of 1-7, with 1 representing the highest level of freedom and 7, the lowest) Political Rights: 3 Civil Liberties: 4 Status: Partly Free Global Integrity Report, 2008 Civil Society, Public Information and Media (rating 1-100): 68  (Weak) World Bank, Governance Matters, 2008 (Percentile rank - indicates rank of country among all countries in the world. 0 corresponds to lowest rank and 100 corresponds to highest rank.) 1) Voice and Accountability: 30.8 2) Political Instability and Violence: 9.6 3) Government Effectiveness: 22.7 4) Regulatory Quality: 20.8 5) Rule of Law: 27.3 6) Control of Corruption: 10.6 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index, 2009  (Relates to perceptions of the degree of corruption as seen by business people and country analysts and ranges between 10 - highly clean and 0 - highly corrupt.) CPI Score: 2.4