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Providing better service by automating “business processes” is an exciting prospect for improving the government. Yet, there has not been the same level of effort at making it easier for the public to obtain information about what its government is doing. This article focuses on the constraints and opportunities in making database information available to the public. The database technology is chosen because it is a central repository of public information. New federal law requires the use of information technology (IT) to make access to public information easier. But the new law has also subtly shifted the burden of proof to the citizen in showing why certain information should be made available. If a “statutory fix” to this problem is not available in the short run, we urge agencies to provide increased access to database information because of the continual development of technology and its effect on citizen expectations.  相似文献   

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Europe is gradually embracing freedom of information principles while at the same time restricting dissemination of information generated by public agencies through electronic databases. Both Britain and Germany are moving to adopt freedom of information laws, and the European Commission has published a regulation allowing access to European institution materials. These developments are important for the rest of the world, including the United States, because the Internet is already becoming a vast virtual library facilitating global access to statutes, court decisions, and administrative agency decisions that make up the raw ingredients of a rule of law. Meanwhile, however, the European Commission issued a directive limiting certain uses of electronic databases, broadly enough drafted to include electronic repositories of primary legal information. This kind of state-sponsored monopoly over public information is inimical to a rule of law and democratic values. Europeans and Americans should work to realize the increased transparency promised by the freedom of information developments, and work to minimize the extent to which the database directive and similar proposals on this side of the Atlantic restrict redissemination of primary legal information.  相似文献   

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This paper looks at the role of the European Directive on re-use of public sector information in the current trend towards opening up government data. After discussing the PSI directive, it gives an overview of current policies and practices with regard to open government data in the Member States. It is argued that the success of the open government data movement in some Member States can be related to the confusion or ignorance about the relationship between traditional freedom of information legislation and the re-use of public sector data. If future information policies decide to follow this trend, they should always ensure that existing rights on freedom of information are not harmed.  相似文献   

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董妍 《档案学研究》2019,33(1):80-87
构建香港特区政府信息公开制度的核心规则是不具有法律拘束力的《公开资料守则》。现实中政府信息公开制度在香港得到了良好的实施:公民大部分政府信息公开申请均被满足,申诉专员对公民知情权提供有力救济。内部利益吸引和外部制度制约是政府信息公开制度实施的核心要素;司法救济的缺失应归责于法院的过度保守而并非政府信息公开法的缺位。内地完善政府信息公开制度应当充分利用政府信息公开制度提升政府形象,完善政府信息公开制度监督和评议制度。  相似文献   

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The Florida Legislature created the Joint Committee on Information Technology Resources for the purpose of, in part, analyzing the impact of advances in information technology on the Florida Public Records Law. In responding to the U.S. Information Industry Association's recently promulgated access principles for state and local government, the author found that although Florida does not actively encourage a diversity of information sources, such diversity is an indirect result of the state's long tradition of open access. The public's right of access is now guaranteed in Florida by a new constitutional amendment that guarantees every person the right to inspect or copy the public records of all three branches of Florida government.Florida's law is silent about an agency's obligation to provide a public record in a particular medium. However, the Joint Committee has proposed legislation that would require an agency to provide a copy of a public record in the medium requested. Additionally, the proposed legislation would allow a reasonable fee for costs for the labor and overhead associated with duplicating or copying a computer database; current law allows only the actual cost of duplication. In an effort to insure equal and timely access, this legislation also contains a provision that requires agencies to consider public access and redaction of exempt information in the design and development of all electronic recordkeeping systems.In an attempt to avoid monopoly control over public information, the author sponsored legislation last year that would have repealed Florida's law allowing the copyright of agency-created software. The Joint Committee's proposed legislation has a provision that would assure meaningful access to data controlled by proprietary software and would also preclude an agency from entering into any contract that would impair the right of the public to inspect and copy public records.  相似文献   

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Federal open records laws, executive orders on national security classification, and similar policy instruments in the states require that most records at government agencies be available to the public upon request—subject to exemptions which may entail review. Traditionally, this review has been accomplished by redaction (purging) of hardcopy. Resource limitations and increases in the number of requests demand a rethinking of the process. Offices are experimenting with optical scanning, onscreen purging, and online dissemination. Statutory and common law trends may soon require disclosure of database reports in electronic form, when so requested, rather than printouts. The dissemination of manipulable data of commercial value requires a rationale broader than the “citizenship rights” that justified the Freedom of Information Act. Online publication of agency-controlled records also demands careful planning of information systems and public networks. The issues discussed in this article are central to the establishment of an adequate policy for electronic freedom of information.  相似文献   

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Some have claimed that prices charged by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) for its information products and services are inappropriately high. The National Technical Information Service commissioned a study, carried out by the author, to determine whether these claims were substantiated. The study focused on 15 selected information products and services, and asked whether prices for these products were too high relative to NTIS' costs, relative to prices for comparable commercial products, and relative to prices for comparable products from the Government Printing Office (GPO). NTIS breaks even in the aggregate, showing neither profit nor loss at the end of the year, although individual products may be priced higher or lower than cost. NTIS prices appeared to be competitive with comparable private sector prices, and 17 executives from information industry firms believed NTIS prices were about right or not too high. For comparable products from GPO, NTIS prices tend to be lower because of administrative decisions to underprice GPO. The study examined, in greater depth, issues surrounding two new information products, Big Emerging Markets and World News Connection. NTIS prices are not too high relative to costs, to comparable commercial products and GPO products.  相似文献   

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[目的/意义] 探讨政府数据开放中公众参与的理论模式,旨在指导政府部门有效实现公众参与数据开放的政策目标,以及推进政府数据开放中公众参与议题的研究进展。[方法/过程] 采用文献分析法、逻辑分析法和案例分析法,同时以公众参与阶梯理论作为分析工具,构建并实证政府数据开放中的公众参与模式。[结果/结论] 政府数据开放中的公众参与可从理论层面构建为告知型参与、咨询型参与、合作型参与和授权型参与4种模式,其核心涵义分别是政府向公众传达信息、政府咨询公众意见、政府与公众平等合作、政府与公众共同治理。这4种政府数据开放公众参与理论模式一方面在政府意图、主导力量、信息流动、公众信息知晓度和公众自治程度方面存在明显的特征差异,另一方面从国内外政府数据开放公众参与实践案例中获得良好的经验支持。  相似文献   

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[目的/意义] 探讨政府数据开放中公众参与的理论模式,旨在指导政府部门有效实现公众参与数据开放的政策目标,以及推进政府数据开放中公众参与议题的研究进展。[方法/过程] 采用文献分析法、逻辑分析法和案例分析法,同时以公众参与阶梯理论作为分析工具,构建并实证政府数据开放中的公众参与模式。[结果/结论] 政府数据开放中的公众参与可从理论层面构建为告知型参与、咨询型参与、合作型参与和授权型参与4种模式,其核心涵义分别是政府向公众传达信息、政府咨询公众意见、政府与公众平等合作、政府与公众共同治理。这4种政府数据开放公众参与理论模式一方面在政府意图、主导力量、信息流动、公众信息知晓度和公众自治程度方面存在明显的特征差异,另一方面从国内外政府数据开放公众参与实践案例中获得良好的经验支持。  相似文献   

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欧美政府信息商业化模式比较研究   总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0  
丁波涛 《图书情报工作》2009,53(21):122-125
比较美国和欧洲推进政府信息商业化所采取的不同模式,分析模式差异的原因及社会经济效果,指出以美国为代表的开放、市场化的模式应当是我国政府信息商业化的未来发展方向。在此过程中,我国应当修改政府信息版权规定、保障政府信息安全、防止政府与私营机构签订排它性条款、限制政府提供竞争性信息服务。  相似文献   

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The Internet and its World Wide Web (Web) have an important role to play in the economic development of China. The government of the People's Republic of China has declared its intention to open opportunities for foreign trade and investment in China. Part of the commitment is a commitment to rule of law. Rule of law acceptable to commercial interests requires transparency and decisional rationality. These two features can be realized most quickly by connecting legal institutions through the Internet's Web to bodies of international commercial law, thus creating a virtual library for Chinese legal decision makers, and using the Web as a quick and cheap electronic “printing press” for Chinese legal decision makers. As a result, their statutes, rules, and decisional law become available to commercial interests. But technology is not enough. Innovative cross-cultural exchange programs aimed at the legal, managerial, and Web-master professions will round out this rule of law support for commercial globalization.  相似文献   

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肖萍 《图书馆论坛》2008,28(1):126-129
<政府信息公开条例>生效后,利用公共图书馆公开政府信息将成为政府信息公开的一种法定方式.从公共图书馆的性质来说,公共图书馆应当承担政府信息公开的责任,公共图书馆在政府信息公开中只是一个形式上的主体,利用公共图书馆公开政府信息应遵循人本、免费、及时原则,承担政府信息公开对公共图书馆的管理与服务又提出了许多新的要求.  相似文献   

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Open government initiatives attempt to strengthen the relationship between public information disclosure and citizen engagement. Yet empirical assessments suggest they frequently miss their mark, thus highlighting a gap in open government knowledge: while a strong emphasis is placed on institutions in shaping the flow of government information and creating opportunities for engagement, there has been very little emphasis on understanding citizens and ways of communicating government information to draw them to engagement opportunities. To address this gap, we design a randomized survey experiment to demonstrate how the choice of reference points – cognitive anchors that innately influence the way individuals approach decisions – used to communicate government information can strengthen the relationship between public information disclosure and citizen engagement, and in turn the effectiveness of open government initiatives. We explain how these findings offer novel theoretical and practical insights into ways open government could be leveraged for purposes of enhancing citizen engagement.  相似文献   

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探索政府开放资料在台湾的发展现况:研究发现政府机关在其信息公开发展已经成熟之际,更持续地进一步施行更为全面的政府资料开放,相关主管机关已经在法制层面开始规划研拟,以逐步完成政府开放资料环境之整备;实证数据显示,政府开放数据实行对于政府信息增值有直接的影响,可以协助公众更有效率地获取政府数据与信息以从事增值应用,并减少公众在使用政府信息增值时所面对的困难;研究建议政府从法令规范、开放数据平台、开放数据面向、技术与格式标准、开放数据的推广与授权使用机制之6个方面,推动政府开放数据政策的落实。  相似文献   

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This article discusses the approach of two national governments to the use of the World Wide Web (WWW) as a means for providing information and other resources to the public. Each country has a view of information management and information delivery through the WWW. The United States links the actions of agencies to a strategic planning process involving the use of performance indicators, whereas New Zealand has a lesser commitment to information dissemination. Performance indicators reflecting a customer's perspective could apply to U.S. government WWW sites, thereby improving the public's right-to-know, open government, and public access. The article identifies future directions for research and evaluation, and illustrates that government information for both countries need not appear in textual form.  相似文献   

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The provision of legal search and retrieval services by the Department of Justice or other components of the federal government is unwise, unnecessary, and dangerous. It would pose a threat to a free and open society by inviting political controls over judicial opinions and over users of a research service. The federal government is an unreliable supplier of information services because dissemination policies are influenced routinely by political and bureaucratic considerations. Users of a government-sponsored service would face the possibility that government workers would spy on their research activities. The government in its role as publisher would be required to make editorial judgments about the contents of a legal research system, and those judgments would be influenced by political and bureaucratic interests. Inherent in a government-operated legal research system is the potential for increased surveillance of users and for political control over the availability of the law.  相似文献   

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谢欢 《图书馆》2011,(6):101-103
美国图书馆开展政府信息服务历史悠久,健全的法律保障、与政府良好的合作关系、公民的主动参与、完善的利用机制是促进美国图书馆政府信息服务的重要因素。与美国相比,中国图书馆开展政府信息服务的时间短,地区发展不平衡;相关法律、政府信息、服务对象的缺失很大程度上阻碍了中国公共图书馆政府信息服务的开展。中国需要加强相关法律的制订与完善,为图书馆开展政府信息服务创造一个好的环境,此外图书馆自身也要积极参与到政府信息服务这项工作,同时通过努力强化公民的参与意识。  相似文献   

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李晶 《图书情报工作》2011,55(21):115-92
政府在信息公开过程中一方面要最大限度地满足公众知情权需求,同时也要考虑到信息公开制度运行的经济效率。在成本交易和产权分析理论的基础上,建立政府与公众的不完全信息动态博弈模型,考察双方在信息公开制度中的最优策略选择。研究建议政府部门应该树立正确的信息公开观念,在立法体例上准确界定信息公开的范围并充分利用信息公开的信息反馈机制获知公众对知情权的需求。  相似文献   

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以重庆地区为例考察了《中华人民共和国政府信息公开条例》第16条的实施情况,发现其在区县公共图书馆实施状况不佳,仍是"纸上的法律";论述了区县公共图书馆应当开展政府信息查询工作的几个原因,并提出区县公共图书馆开展政府信息查询工作的初步构想,以期将第16条转化为现实的法律秩序。  相似文献   

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国际上政府信息开发利用的商业模式主要有两种:政府部门主导型和私营部门主导型。私营部门主导型比政府部门主导型更有利于政府信息的开发利用。我国政府信息开发利用应采取私营部门主导型。私营部门主导型在我国的建立离不开政府信息公开法、著作权法、反不正当竞争法、反垄断法、政府信息开发利用法的修改或制定。  相似文献   

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