Government Transparency: Exercising Digital Rights in the Information Age
Government Transparency: Exercising Digital Rights in the Information Age
Building transparency and accountability isn't easy.
In 2006, the Colectivo Ecologista Jalisco (Jalisco Ecological Collective) filed a freedom of information request for public expenditures on health, education and environmental services in and around the municipality of Juanacatlán, Mexico. The figures they found contradicted earlier information from local officials, who underreported by millions of pesos.1
Just a year later, residents of a small village in northeastern Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, filed an information request to learn why the condition of roads and drains were in a dismal state...
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