Online Resources
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General eTransparency Sites:
http://www.developmentgateway.org/ICT/transparency
Development Gateway ICTs and Transparency site
http://www.transparency.org/working_papers/index.html
Transparency International: see section on "Media and Access to Information"
http://www.cdt.org/egov/handbook/transparency.shtml
Transparency section of the CDT/InfoDev e-government handbook; provides links to best practices and case studies on transparency
Overview Papers
http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/blob?pid=4591
Transparency in the Networked Economy: a conceptual approach for the design of transparency strategies by organizations, based on a multi-stakeholder system of governance
http://www.transparency.org/working_papers/martin-feldman/index.html
Access to Information in Developing Countries: Analyses elements, preconditions, and importance of access to information; provides discussion of legislation plus India case study; and gives a questionnaire based on factors that affect access to information
http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/egov/panzardi%20presentation.doc
Online Information Disclosure: overview of enhancement of information disclosure in developing countries with short case studies of online information disclosure tools in Argentina , Brazil and Chile .
Guidance/Best Practice
http://conferences.alia.org.au/online2003/papers/barndtt.html
Data Architecture : P rovides a practical insight into effective content management for the development of e-government systems
http://www.diggov.org/dgrc/dgo2003/cdrom/PAPERS/policyissues/katz.pdf
Data Architecture : Discusses an information architecture that allows citizens and others to obtain public policy/regulation text using everyday language
http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2002/nt_2002_09_02_classify.htm
Data Architecture : Discusses the importance of, and brief methodology for good information architecture
http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/93596/egovernancepaperfinal.doc
Design : Addresses the requirements for effective e-governance (including transparency-oriented) Web sites, focusing on the quality and accessibility of information
http://www.cyprg.arizona.edu/waes.html
Evaluation : Provides a model for evaluating the degree of transparency and internal effectiveness of Web sites
http://www.imf.org/external/np/fad/trans/question/quest.htm#question
Evaluation : Provides guidelines for countries' authorities to assess the degree of fiscal transparency of the government
http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/pe/9drafttransparency.doc
Evaluation : Especially in the appendixes of the paper, provides guidelines and a framework questionnaire for assessing the degree of transparency and participation in the budget process of a country/government.
http://www.article19.org/docimages/1112.htm
Laws : Provides a law template for the development and adaptation of right-to-information legislation in any country
http://web.archive.org/web/20080113024526/http://www.courtaccess.org/modelpolicy (see Document Drafts)
Strategy : Provides a set of guidelines for the development of a policy on public access to the judiciary's information system
http://web.archive.org/web/20040626141421/http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/research/papers/FGW.pdf
Strategy : Academic paper that addresses the question of why some transparency systems improve over time while others stagnate or degenerate; what are the political and economic costs and benefits of disclosure; and what makes a disclosure policy sustainable over time
Case Studies
http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/egov/anticorruption&t.htm
World Bank eGov transparency cases
http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/195506/Municipality_of_Sophia_Case_Study.pdf
A perspective on the effectiveness of the newly implemented MIS in Sophia; by comparing the project to other successful transparency projects, explores whether the new management information system would be a tool in combating corruption
Types of Transparency
http://www.imf.org/external/np/fad/trans/question/quest.htm#question
Financial Transparency : Provides guidelines for countries' authorities to assess the degree of fiscal transparency of the government
http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/egov/AntiCorEgovSeminar/bill Transprency and IFMS.doc
Financial Transparency : discusses the risks surrounding the use of integrated financial information systems in promoting fiscal transparency
http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/pe/9drafttransparency.doc
Financial Transparency : Especially in the appendixes of the paper, provides guidelines and a framework questionnaire for assessing the degree of transparency and participation in the budget process of a country/government
http://www.courtaccess.org/modelpolicy/ (see Document Drafts)
Judicial Transparency : Provides a set of guidelines for the development of a policy on public access to the judiciary's information system
http://www.arc.online.bg/mgmis/index.htm
Local Government Transparency : Discusses the implementation of a Municipal Government Management Information System intended to help increase transparency of the municipality of Sofia , with reference to the stages, methodology and feasibility study
http://www.iacd.oas.org/template-ingles/E-Procurement_Profiles-Fina_%20Version.pdf
Procurement Transparency : Presents a description of e-procurement initiatives in Chile , Brazil and Mexico , and best practices in Australia , Canada , United States , Ireland , and Singapore
http://www.iadb.org/ros/prm/egp/home.html
Procurement Transparency : an interactive database on electronic government procurement projects, charting functions and characteristics