"Une presse indépendante est essentielle pour un développement économique équitable : elle contribue à donner la parole aux personnes pauvres et privées de droit. Des médias autonomes participent également à l’édification de bases solides pour une société libre et transparente. Les aut
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eurs, parmi lesquels figurent quelques Prix Nobel, comme Joseph Stiglitz, ancien économiste en chef de la Banque Mondiale et le célèbre Gabriel García Márquez, étudient le rôle des médias comme garde-fous des secteurs publics et privés et la politique en matière de liberté de la presse. Ils jugent également les effets nuisibles que peut causer un journalisme irresponsable et contraire à l’éthique. Un ouvrage de réflexion pour les étudiants, les professeurs et les chercheurs en communication et pour ceux qui s'intéressent au pouvoir et à l'impact des médias." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"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 com
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promising 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)
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"This manual for public officials is designed as a resource for officials who want to adopt administrative practices that conform to the best standards of freedom of information. It should help them to make their work and procedures more professional, which will increase the public’s trust in and
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appreciation of their administration. This manual can be used in three basic ways: used as a teaching guide for trainers running courses for public officials responsible for handling information requests; used as a learning tool by such officials – in other words they can work through the manual on their own; used as a reference tool by officials who have already gone through a training course." (Introduction)
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"The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) regards this brochure as a document for discussion and orientation on the growing importance of information – and especially access to information – in international development cooperation. This document seeks to establish a framework for
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stimulating activities in this domain. It is also a contribution from SDC to the wider debate on access to information as one of the essential components of governance." (Introduction, page 4)
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"Conceptually, there are three stages in the promotion of a right to information regime: pre-legislation stage; during drafting stage; and post-legislation stage. Civil society in India has played a role in all the three stages. Accordingly, this paper examines how civil society has 1. brought about
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a conceptual shift in the debate on right to information; 2. used public hearing as a mode of mobilizing people to demand transparency and accountability; 3. used several methods of social audit to promote transparency and accountability; 4. exerted pressure, through networking, on government for a legislation on right to information; 5. supplied drafts of possible legislation and flagged gaps in the legislation once it was passed; 6. used state-level legislation, created awareness about it, prepared people to use it and officials to implement it. This paper concentrates on the role of civil society in promoting the concept of social audit through four methods: public hearings, report cards, budget information, and social audit under «panchayati raj». Social audit is a way of measuring, understanding, reporting and ultimately improving an organization’s social and ethical performance." (Executive summary, page 3)
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"This Practical Guidance Note aims to: heighten awareness and knowledge within UNDP country offices (COs) on right to information generally and right to information legislation specifically; assist COs by providing practical information and guidance for right to information legislation programming;
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signpost additional resources, sources of expertise and further reading." (Executive summary)
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"The evidence of the Ghana and Nigeria experiences suggests that prospects of realising the right to information are more propitious if the challenge is civil society led and driven. The successful passage of a right to information act in any one country should also provide the necessary impetus for
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other countries to join the global wave of change towards greater disclosure and transparency." (Conclusion)
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"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
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i) scanning of UNDP intranet databases and internal reporting systems especially the data contained in the ROAR3), and (iii) scanning of the internet including CO, SURF and Regional Bureaux websites and general Internet searches [...] The second section provides information on more than 100 international organizations actively working on Access to Information issues. The majority of these organizations work with developing countries to promote freedom of expression and information. They were identified through (i) internet and literature searches (ii) direct feedback from country offices, regional bureaux and SURFs and (iii) referrals from within and outside UNDP." (Page 6)
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"Implementation of the rights to freedom of expression and to access information are prerequisites for ensuring the voice and participation necessary for a democratic society. Access to information and communication build on these internationally recognized rights and together encompass the core pri
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nciples of democratic governance: participation, transparency and accountability. The promotion and protection of both access to information itself and flows of information that exist between constituents, government, parliament, community groups, civil society organizations and the private sector are of equal importance. It is essential to create and strengthen communication mechanisms that enable poor people to influence national and local government policy and practice." (Executive summary)
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