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- Access to information: building a culture of transparency. Jamaica (2006)
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- Unlocking the investigative potential of Freedom of Information Acts (2021)
- Making open development inclusive: lessons from IDRC research (2020)
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What is an ideal internet to you? A global exploration of digital rights trends
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Pollicy
(2022), 56 pp., bibliogr. p.47-56
CC BY-SA
"This white paper seeks to provide an overview of the core thematic issues around digital rights and digital safety across the world. The content builds off a global mapping exercise of organisations and knowledge, predominantly focused on Africa and the Middle East, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Eas...
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and its potential to foster freedom of expression, access to information and safety of journalists: guidelines for civil society organizations
UNESCO; Amnesty International
(2022), 17 pp.
CC BY-SA
"This guide aims to encourage civil society and community organizations, activists and individuals to engage with the United Nations' (UN) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism on freedom of expression, safety of journalists and access to information issues. The guide explains why it is importan...
Investigative journalism, RTI law and the fight against corruption in Ghana: reflections from a stakeholder forum in Accra
Accra:
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA); Deutsche Welle DW Akademie
(2021), 10 pp.
"The RTI Act is considered the mother of all anti-corruption tools in Ghana. It is expected that citizens will utilize the law to access public information thereby engendering transparency and accountability in governance. Again, that active information disclosure by government and public institutio...
Unlocking the investigative potential of Freedom of Information Acts
Oxford:
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
(2021), 27 pp.
"Experts say having a law for access to public information is important to enhance public transparency, but it’s only the starting point in the battle against state secrecy. How can journalists benefit from such laws and why should the news media care about it? This paper is divided into four part...
Making open development inclusive: lessons from IDRC research
Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
(2020), xiv, 498 pp., index
ISBN 978-0-262-53911-1 (pbk); 9781552505953 (ebook)
CC BY
"Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research focuses on the connection between openness and inclusion in global development. It brings together the latest research that cuts across a wide variety of political, economic, and social arenas - from governance to education to entreprene...
Global right to information update: an analysis by region
Freedom of Information Advocates Network (FOIAnet)
(2013), 91 pp.
"The Update reveals that the challenges faced by advocates, and the campaigning tactics used in each region, are at times remarkably similar. National civil society coalitions, for example, are mentioned by many authors as having made a central contribution to campaigns. In other cases, challenges d...
Access to information: building a culture of transparency. Jamaica
Atlanta:
Carter Center
(2006), vi, 150 pp., illustr., tables, bibliogr.
"In passing and implementing the Access to Information Act 2002, Jamaica has established a new and more open form of governance and accomplished what many other countries are still attempting. The Act, which provides citizens an enforceable right to official documents held by public authorities, is ...
Access to information: UNDP's engagement and a guide to key actors
New York:
Democratic Governance Group Bureau for Development Policy United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
(2003), 96 pp., abbrev., direct.
"The first section provides summary information on 69 UNDP supported projects and initiatives as of 2002/03. These initiatives were identified primarily by desk research from three main sources: (i) direct feedback from the Sub-Regional Resource Facilities (SURFs)2), the COs and Regional Bureaux, (i...
