The Media Tool Box 4: Access to Information
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2004), 37 pp.
Series: Making Democracy Work
"This Tool Box is meant to help keep up the pressure on the authorities not just to pay lip service to the idea of free access to information but to implement it. It will describe in some more detail why such access is an essential citizen's right and how it can be exercised efficiently, without compromising other rights or legitimate concerns in the process. It will also look at those pieces of existing legislation that need to be reviewed to ensure open and transparent government." (Page 6)
1 About this Box, 3
2 Why the right to access to information? 7
3 Who should be obliged to give access to information and to whom? 14
4 Who should be in charge of disclosing information? 19
5 Should all information be equally accessible? 22
6 How should access to information actually work? 36
7 What about whistleblowers? 40
8 What to do about Official Secrets Acts? 43
9 How should the law be implemented? 48
2 Why the right to access to information? 7
3 Who should be obliged to give access to information and to whom? 14
4 Who should be in charge of disclosing information? 19
5 Should all information be equally accessible? 22
6 How should access to information actually work? 36
7 What about whistleblowers? 40
8 What to do about Official Secrets Acts? 43
9 How should the law be implemented? 48
