Access To Public Information Research Articles

ACCESS TO PUBLIC INFORMATION IN THE AMERICAS: Interview with Dante M. Negro Alvarado / Director of the Department of International Law of the Organization of American States (OAS) and Technical Secretary of the Inter-American Juridical Committee

Interview with Dante M. Negro Alvarado – Director of the Department of International Law of the Organization of American States (OAS) and Technical Secretary of the Inter-American Juridical Committee.

Pengelolaan Informasi dan Dokumentasi Sebagai Basis Pemenuhan Keterbukaan Informasi Publik

Achieving transparent public information access services requires good information management and documentation. For this reason, it is necessary to study the role of information and documentation management officials in supporting the realization of public information openness. This research uses a qualitative approach by applying interview, observation and documentation methods. The results of this research show that to realize openness of public information, information and documentation management officials at UINJ carry out the role of coordinating, documenting information, verifying information, testing consequences, updating information, and providing information to the public. To support the achievement of these roles, PPID UINJ refers to standard operating procedures and implementation of evaluations. However, the results of this research also show that the implementation of public information has not been optimal due to barriers to mindset regarding openness of public information and technical obstacles. Theoretically, the results of this research show that success in realizing public information openness is not only through fulfilling the indicators of the role of officials but also through changing the mindset of stakeholders and supporting work units in the work environment as a whole

Pemerintah Dalam Menyusun Kebijakan Pengawasan Media Sosial Dan Teknologi Digital

This research delves into the impact of scientific advancement on both governmental and private sectors, emphasizing the critical role of Public Relations (PR) in governance and corporate realms. Information technology, particularly the internet and social media, serves as the primary means for public information access. It highlights the significance of public information transparency based on legal regulations, along with social media's role in facilitating public participation concerning public policie. The research methodology includes literature reviews, case studies, expert interviews, and community surveys. Findings emphasize the government's role in supervising social media and digital technology to ensure their safe, fair, and just use. The research also underscores the importance of political participation, whether conventional or online, in governmental policy determination. A case study concerning the role of Facebook in disseminating information by the Faculty of Tarbiyah and Education at IAIN Kendari constitutes a pivotal part of this discussion.

Covid-19 cure perceptions and media use in India

ABSTRACT Background During the early phases of Covid-19, social media platforms became a significant source of misinformation, and India emerged as a global hotspot. Studies show that ‘miracle cure’ for preventing and treating Covid-19 infection has been a prominent topic of misinformation. This study explores the extent to which beliefs in cure for Covid-19 in three prominent medical traditions popular in India are associated with the exposure to and trust in various sources from which the public access information. Methods We conducted an online structured questionnaire survey of 500 respondents in August 2020 in four major cities of India. Results Despite the scientific consensus at that time that there was no cure for Covid-19, close to three-quarters of our respondents believe that there was a cure in at least one of the three popular medical traditions in India: Allopathy, Homeopathy, and Ayurveda. We find that exposure to and trust in WhatsApp are associated with false beliefs regarding the existence of a cure for Covid-19 (p = 0.001 and p = 0.014, respectively). While trust in science is associated with correct beliefs (p = 0.025), there is evidence that trust in government information may foster incorrect beliefs (p = 0.031). Conclusions The high trust in scientific research and its potential ability to instill correct beliefs could be exploited to combat Covid-19 misinformation in India. Potential interventions such as awareness campaigns to increase digital media literacy, regulating social media platforms, and voluntary content regulation by social media platforms – might help policymakers tackle Covid-19 related misinformation effectively.

Building Resilient Communities: The Environmental Observatory for Mining Projects and Climate Change Indicators

Public environmental information can improve industry performance, reduce environmental conflicts, and foster informed citizenship. The latter is directly linked to resilience because it is a “process that enables people to learn together, support experimentation, and increase the potential for (social and technological) innovation”. Importantly, the transparency and disclosure of environmental information alone do not have the desired impact; the general public may have access to information but not understand the content. It is necessary to reframe the technical language of information to reach broader stakeholder understanding. The Environmental Observatory for Mining Projects is an applied research project that aims to provide a public information access system for diverse stakeholders. It integrates data from various public services and makes them available to a variety of stakeholders, including the general public, through a web server and application that facilitate accessibility and understanding by using the co-creation methodology for public services. As a result of the project, the authors identified 25 indicators, six of which relate to climate change, including greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution, air pollution, hazardous waste, and tailing deposit locations. These indicators are relevant for decision making through the combined knowledge of public policies, information priorities on the impacts and vulnerabilities of climate change, and more practical issues related to data availability. The authors conclude that environmental information systems must provide people with essential data, but that such information must also be understandable, manageable, comparable, and interoperable so as to promote access to crucial information for resilient communities.

Sistem Informasi Geografis Sekolah di Kota Medan Menggunakan Algoritma Haversine

The Medan Education Office is one of the government agencies that has the task of managing education starting from elementary to secondary schools in Medan. At present, the management of school information data in Medan has not been integrated into a geographic information system . Therefore, it is difficult for the public to access school data because the available information is not structured and well integrated. The purpose of this study is to assist the Medan Education Office in integrating school data in a geographic information system and to make it a place for the public to find school information, distance s and route s to the nearest school. The research uses the R & D (Research and Development) method which is a method for producing certain products and testing the effectiveness of the method. The research data are collect ed through observation, interview, and library research . The results of this study conclude that t he haversine algorithm applied to the built geographic information system has show n the results of the distances and routes that can be taken by the user s to get to the destination. The School Geographic Information System in Medan provides convenience to the Medan Education Office in inputting school data , helping the public access information easily .

THE WEBSITE OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

The article examines the importance of creating an informational and educational environment of a higher education institution as a condition for quality provision of educational services for its applicants and informing potential users. The role of the informational competence of the educational worker in the innovative educational environment for orientation in today's variety of information sources is revealed. The theoretical and practical aspects of the functioning of the information and educational environment and the essence of the concept itself are considered. The functions and tasks of the educational website as an element of the informational and educational environment, which occupies the key place of an effective organizational lever, are analyzed. The structure of the University website was studied and the principles of filling it with public access information depending on the category of users were highlighted. A scheme for filling the official website of the Higher Education Institution with data is proposed. It has been established that in order to effectively solve the tasks that rely on the website of the Higher Education Institution, its structure must be competent and clear, as optimized and logical as possible, which affects its perception by users and ranking in the global Internet. The information content should take into account the category of users, the navigation should be as clear as possible, and the visual component should be attractive and recognizable.

Management of public-private housing condominiums: the case of municipalities in the Warmia and Mazury province in Poland

Privatization of municipal housing in Poland has led to the emergence of public-private housing condominiums. The aim of the study was to investigate the ownership structures of common property management entities in such condominiums in Poland. The intended investigation was conducted on the sample of the 30 largest urban municipalities located in the Warmia and Mazury province. The empirical data was collected by questionnaire interviews using the public information access technique. The aim of the study was achieved through hierarchical cluster analysis using the agglomerative method. The results showed that the structures of common property management entities in studied housing condominiums varied in nature. In most municipalities surveyed, these structures were dominated by municipal entities. However, there is a growing group of municipalities where the surveyed structures have been dominated by private property managers. The in-house management model proved to be not very popular in the surveyed sample of municipalities.

#Laser Surgery: How Lasers are Portrayed on Instagram

Instagram has become one of the primary means by which the public access information, societal trends, and entertainment content. One particular trend, posting content about minimally invasive cosmetic procedures, specifically laser surgery, is frequently highlighted on social media in the form of before-and-after photos, procedural videos, educational posts, and office advertisements.

Digital communication tools in a public sector: Ukraine case-study of national security providing

The article is focused on actual experience of using specific digital instruments to communicate with civil society in part of providing sustainable national security. We aggregated the data about efficiency of using digital communication tools in actual reality of a full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine, and compare experience of the EU countries in digital communication in context of Ukraine`s European association. One of the most important fields of usage of specific digital communication tools to provide national security is the transparency and the public information access with supplying effective feedback. The usage of digital communication tools is gaining great importance in case of Ukraine, including and considering sustainable cyber, civil, economic, military and national security in realities of a full-scale war and safety threats.

User profiling and satisfaction inference in public information access services

User profiling and satisfaction inference in public information access services

Criminal Acts of Corruption Procurement of Goods and Services of Local Governments through Electronic Procurement Services (LPSE)

The rapid advancement of technology is seen as one of the right and effective methods to increase the transparency of public information access, by implementing an online system for goods/services procurement or known as Electronic Procurement Services (LPSE). But corruption in the goods/services procurement of the local government continues even though the LPSE has been implemented. The purpose of this research is to knowing legal arrangements, forms of irregularities, and to explain the efforts of Government Internal Supervisory Apparatus (APIP) in preventing corruption in the goods and services procurement of the local government carried out through LPSE The research method used is a qualitative method that is descriptive. The type of juridical research is normative, that is literature study with secondary data types consisting of primary, secondary, tertiary legal materials. The legal arrangements related to the corruption of the public goods/services procurement are regulated in Law No. 31 of 1999 Jo. Law No. 20 of 2001, while the legal arrangements for the public goods/services procurement through LPSE are regulated in Presidential Regulation No. 16 of 2018 Jo. No. 12 of 2021 concerning the Public Procurement Goods/Services. LKPP Regulation as technical guidelines are LKPP Regulation No. 9 of 2018, No. 11 of 2018 Jo. No. 7 of 2020, and No. 14 of 2018. The configuration of irregularities that occur in the public goods/services procurement through LPSE include corruption regulated in Corruption Law, as well as irregularities in the form of administrative irregularities and general crimes, unfair business competition law, and corruption. The efforts of APIP in preventing corruption in the public goods/services procurement is an early warning at every phase of the goods/services procurement and the efforts of LKPP strengthening the Electronic Procurement System (SPSE) by using online-based applications, and law enforcement by firm and fair criminal sanctions to the corruptor in the goods/services procurement in accordance with the applicable corruption law.

Los Datos Sobre COVID-19 en México: Un Modelo Para Armar

This essay reviews the main sources of public access information on the development of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico; what have been the concepts they have handled and their operational definition; what its characteristics, scope and limitations; what data has been provided in each source; how a certain data source is linked with others and how this makes it possible, within accuracy margins that leave space for speculation, the construction of a statistical model that enables a comprehensive and coherent estimation of the incidents of cases and deaths caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the consequences caused in the health of the population of Mexico by this pandemic. Although with the data directly provided in a database by the health authorities of the country it is possible to know the volume of cases confirmed as positive for SARS-CoV-2 through various methods, this information only accounts for part of the phenomenon and leaves hides the real magnitude of the pandemic. Therefore, the expansion of cases from alternative sources is necessary, as at the time was the results of the sentinel model and more recently the data from the National Survey of Health and Nutrition COVID-19 and the count of excess mortality according to the registration of death certificates carried out by various public institutions in a coordinated manner. These sources allow corroborating that at the close of the first year of the pandemic, just under half of the country’s population, 60 million people, had been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 and the volume of deaths added to normal reached almost300 thousand people.

Transparency of Village Financial Management in Pulau Morotai Regency

This study aims to provide an overview of the transparency of village financial management in Pulau Morotai Regency, North Maluku Province, Indonesia. The sample in this study was taken by using a purposive sampling method, involving 440 respondents, and spread in 88 villages in Pulau Morotai Regency. Data processing techniques used descriptive statistics with a class interval approach. The results show that the indicators of clarity of roles and responsibilities, implementation of government affairs are still dominated by the head of the village who has the authority for village financial management. Indicators of budget disclosure show relatively the same as indicators of clarity of roles and responsibilities. The indicators of information availability indicate that the accessibility of public information in villages located in the subdistrict capital is relatively good. In contrast, the last indicator, integrity assurance, shows that data validity still being a problem in the village planning process. This study also discusses the implications as well as suggestions for future studies.

Desafíos que enfrentan las unidades de transparencia y acceso a la información pública del estado de Coahuila

Coahuila destaca por una ley aprobada en 2014 que sirvió como insumo y antecedente inmediato de la reforma que dio origen a la Ley General de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información Pública, aprobada en 2015 por el Congreso de la Unión. La armonización del Ley de Transparencia en Coahuila en 2017 significó nuevos desafíos emergentes y que aún no son resueltos en la administración pública. El objetivo del artículo es identificar los desafíos que enfrentan las unidades de transparencia para garantizar al ciudadano el ejercicio del derecho de acceso a la información pública. Para lograrlo se aplicó una encuesta a diversos sujetos obligados en 2018, cuyos resultados sugieren la importancia de fortalecer una cultura organizacional de la transparencia y el uso de la información pública para agregar valor público a la acción gubernamental.

Derecho a la información y protección de datos personales en el neoconstitucionalismo iberoamericano

El derecho a la información es uno de los derechos fundamentales consagrados enla Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos. En el mundo contemporáneo, en laera de la información, el acceso a ella se facilita como nunca en la historia, debido a quees posible transmitir datos de voz, texto y video en tiempo real. A pesar de la brechadigital que persiste en la región iberoamericana, es posible argumentar que esta se ha idocerrando de manera paulatina en los últimos años. La digitalización de la interacción social,la educación y los servicios públicos y privados se han convertido en una realidad tangible,con una enorme repercusión económica, social y política. Pero, también, los datos personales se encuentran, como nunca en la historia, expuestos a ser utilizados con fines ajenosal consentimiento del usuario. En el presente artículo buscaremos describir algunas de lasposibilidades y retos del derecho a la información y la protección a los datos personales.Igualmente, estudiaremos la manera en que ambos derechos deben ser protegidos porel constitucionalismo iberoamericano. El Estado mexicano no ha sido pionero en AméricaLatina en protección de datos personales, ni existen en su territorio garantías lo suficientemente efectivas para disuadir a los traficantes de datos que todos los días manipulany comercializan con ellos. No obstante, se han realizado los primeros intentos para transitar hacia un régimen más transparente, en el que el derecho de acceso a la informaciónpública sea un peldaño para fortalecer el tan debilitado Estado democrático de derecho.

Periodismo, comunicación institucional y transparencia: aprendizajes de la crisis sanitaria del COVID-19.

Introducción: El objetivo del artículo es extraer aprendizajes para la modificación y mejora de las normas reguladoras de la transparencia en España ante situaciones excepcionales como el estado de alarma, de modo que sirva a finalidades como facilitar la rendición de cuentas y a la labor de los profesionales del periodismo. Metodología: para ello, se realiza un análisis de la controversia sobre la falta de transparencia gubernamental en el contexto del estado de alarma, realizando una reconstrucción de los hitos y circunstancias acontecidas entre los meses de marzo y mayo de 2020 con relación a la transparencia gubernamental del Estado, combinando para ello diversas fuentes de información como estadísticas, datos de encuestas del CIS, noticias de prensa, informes jurídicos y bibliografía. Resultados: el análisis confirma las insuficiencias de la normativa de transparencia detectadas en la literatura por expertos y periodistas. Entre ellas, la falta de un reconocimiento del acceso a la información pública como derecho fundamental, el exceso de los plazos para obtener respuesta a solicitudes de acceso, la escasa utilidad para desarrollar el periodismo de datos o la debilidad del Consejo de la Transparencia y Buen Gobierno, aparte de una falta general de previsiones para hacer eficaz la rendición de cuentas en materia sanitaria y ante la utilización de los contratos de emergencia.

Gobiernos autonómicos españoles y transparencia activa de sus repositorios digitales. Una revisión taxonómica

Las administraciones públicas suministran datos sobre su desempeño, implementando los principios del gobierno abierto. Con el doble objetivo de cuantificar la divulgación proactiva de información digital de las Comunidades Autónomas españolas en diciembre de 2013 y de 2017, así como buscar tipologías, nos serviremos de una lista de comprobación propia inspirada en la Ley nacional 19/2013 de transparencia, acceso a la información pública y buen gobierno, que ponderando su facilidad reutilizadora según la escala cinco estrellas de Tim Berners-Lee, nos permitirá formular dos indicadores: transparencia open data, que recoge únicamente la información de los portales de datos abiertos, y transparencia global, que amplía la búsqueda a los portales de transparencia y a la web institucional. Los resultados muestran que los niveles de divulgación dejan bastante que desear y, aunque existe una ligera mejoría con el paso del tiempo, solo es relevante para transparencia global gracias al desarrollo y aportación de los portales de transparencia que eclipsan la utilidad de la web institucional. El análisis tipológico identifica dos conglomerados bastante equilibrados dando soporte al postulado de dos teorías contrapuestas: agencia y neoinsitucional.

Public Information Disclosure: Mapping the Understanding of Multiple Actors in Corruption- Prone Indonesian Provinces

Recent scholarships in public administration and legal studies have agreed on the role of public information disclosure as a necessary requirement in eradicating corruption. Moreover, it is evident that accessibility of public information to the citizen helps to improve governance reform and policy making. In that situation, the citizen is involved in the participatory process and subsequently tightens public oversight to the government. Nevertheless, the literature might only be valid in relatively homogenous societies or in countries successfully achieving their development goals. This article seeks to confront this scholarship to the prevalence of a country experiencing ongoing construction of administrative law framework amidst discrepancies of development progress across regions. Three provinces in Indonesia are chosen to explain this matter by identifying relevant actors and mapping their understanding about public information disclosure against corruption. We employ qualitative research by process-tracing methods to identify causal mechanisms over multiple determining factors affecting the understanding. Data is inquired through in-depth interviews and analyses of open, accessible electronic data. Our recent work progress suggests that impediments to undertake public information disclosure against corruption come from very basic situations, including a sort of misunderstanding of predefined terminology between disclosed or classified information to the public and over-reliance on prevailing laws related to the issue without any improvements of the regulatory framework or policy instruments.

El acceso a la información gubernamental: análisis empírico de políticas de transparencia en cuatro países centroamericanos

El artículo analiza el funcionamiento de los sistemas de acceso a la información pública en cuatro países centroamericanos (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y Panamá) a partir de la metodología utilizada en el proyecto Métrica de la Transparencia 2010, realizado por el Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE). El objetivo específico consiste en identificar retos comunes, problemas recurrentes y mejores prácticas en materia de acceso a la información gubernamental en los cuatro países mencionados. El estudio muestra que, a pesar de que en todos los países se ha avanzado en consolidar una legislación especializada, persisten retos importantes para institucionalizar el funcionamiento de dicho sistema y consolidar su capacidad para efectivamente hacer pública –tanto de manera proactiva como en reacción a solicitudes concretas de los ciudadanos– la información gubernamental. El principal desafío es contar con una política pública que permita estructurar un sistema coherente de acceso a la información.