ICTs for Government Transparency

Techniques

Avoiding eTransparency Failure: Ideas About Legal Infrastructure

This page offers ideas about how to address one factor identified as important to the success or failure of e-transparency projects. Follow this link for more information about such factors (and some related case examples).

Idea 1: Support eTransparency With Freedom Of Information Legislation

eTransparency needs support from transparency legislation. This will typically be Freedom of Information legislation at a minimum. Follow this link for some guidelines for FoI laws.

(From: Richard Heeks)

 

Page Author: Richard Heeks. Last updated on 19 October, 2008.
Please contact richard.heeks@manchester.ac.uk with comments and suggestions.