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Congress pushes to make more information public (3/31/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, are pushing legislation to make Congress' activities more transparent after winning support last year to set a deadline for federal agencies to respond to requests for informat

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18 Mar 08

Freedom of information: a comparative legal survey; second edition revised and updated: UNESCO-CI

The importance of the right to information or the right to know is an increasingly constant refrain in the mouths of development practitioners, civil society, academics, the media and governments. What is this right, is it really a right and how have gove

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10 Mar 08

pogo.org Pandemic Flu: Lack of Leadership and Disclosure Plague Vaccine Program 03/06/2008 Project On Government Oversight

Material that should be disclosed and readily accessible includes government contracts for vaccine production, as well as information about vaccine manufacturing capacity, U.S. dependence on foreign sources of material for vaccine production, intellectual

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06 Mar 08

Bruce Schneier's Security Matters: The Myth of the 'Transparent Society'

If I disclose information to you, your power with respect to me increases. One way to address this power imbalance is for you to similarly disclose information to me. We both have less privacy, but the balance of power is maintained. But this mechanism fa

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Public Attitudes Toward Government Accountability and Transparency 2008

In January 2008, the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) commissioned a study by leading market research firm Harris Interactive®, to conduct the first in a series of annual surveys of public attitudes to government transparency and accountabilit

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Mercatus Center at George Mason University - Hack, Mash & Peer

The federal government makes an overwhelming amount of data publicly available each year. Laws ranging from the Administrative Procedure Act to the Paperwork Reduction Act require these disclosures in the name of transparency and accountability. However,

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Information Magic Eight-Ball - Information & Access - OMB Watch

Over the past year, there has been a great deal of activity on issues related to government transparency and secrecy, but it can remain difficult to figure out exactly what all the discussions, reports and hearings actually mean. To try to get to the bott

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