Research: A new study ranks the openness of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. To build the ranking 4 main factors were considered: 1) regulations (normatividad); 2) parliamentary labour (labor parlamentaria); 3) budget and administrative management (presupuesto y gestión administrativa) and 4) citizen participation and attention (participación y atención ciudadana). Factors have different weights (see page 20): 1) weighs 25%; 2) weighs 35%; 3) weighs 30% and 4) weighs 10%. At the same time each factor has subdivisions or indicators that were analyzed to give a more detailed perspective on the factor situation. The study concluded that Perú goes first (orange), 2. Mexico (light blue), 3. Chile (green), 4. Colombia (purple) and 5. Argentina.
Thre study was done by the Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency (Red Latinoamericana por la Transparencia Legislativa), which is composed by civil society organizations from 8 different countries of Latin America.
Viewpoint: Using austerity as an excuse to curtail access to information is a dangerous mistake writes Alasdair Roberts, Jerome L. Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School, Boston, in an op-ed article and a longer presentation titled “Transparnecy in troubled Times,” made to the Tenth World Conference of the International Ombudsman Institute in Wellington, New Zealand.
Wikileaks: Roy Peled and Mark Fenster on Wikileaks in the Iowa Law Review. Peled is Associate-in-Law, Columbia Law School; JSD Candidate, Tel-Aviv University; and former head of the Movement for Freedom of Information in Israel. Mark Fenster is UF Research Foundation professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Fenster article. Peled response.
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