Casualties of a Pandemic: Truth, Trust and Transparency

LoMonte, Frank

doi:10.32473/joci.v2i1.121552

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“…Several free information flow-constraining legal issues are reported in the literature. These are secrecy, privacy and discrimination [62]. Methodical issues exist relating to performance measure definition, data composition method, reliability and validity [63].…”

Section: Flaws In Information Flowmentioning

confidence: 99%

The “Transparency for Safety” Triangle: Developing a Smart Transparency Framework to Achieve a Safety Learning Community

Lindhout

Reniers

2022

IJERPH

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Transparency about health and safety risks is a complex societal, moral, ethical and political concept. Full transparency does not come natural for any of the key stakeholder groups: organizations, authorities and the people. If safety information is not sufficiently shared between them, people and the environment can be harmed. The authors explored the literature on transparency in sharing health and safety information. The findings show that such transparency as a subject is abundant in the literature but the exchange of information is far from complete in practice. Health and safety information is shared both via internal flows within each stakeholder group and via external flows between them. All three main stakeholders in pursuit of true safety for their own reasons, building trust via sharing of health and safety information, require improvement in transparency and a safety information broker between them. This constitutes a smart transparency and information exchange framework. The authors recommend developing a transparency standard, to study cyber-socio-technical systems safety and to include currently underutilized experiential knowledge available from the general public in the societal discourse. The authors propose a societal domain extension to a holistic safety culture model in support of a learning safety community.

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Section: Flaws In Information Flowmentioning

confidence: 99%

The “Transparency for Safety” Triangle: Developing a Smart Transparency Framework to Achieve a Safety Learning Community

Lindhout

Reniers

2022

IJERPH

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“…During times of strife, he wrote, accurate and complete information is even more important, and could "literally mean the difference between life and death." 9 Yet, the secrecy continues. Each summer and winter, I teach an online class in accessing public records, requiring students to gather dozens of public records regarding a house for sale.…”

Section: The Journal Of Civic Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Editor's Note: A Sickness that Lingers

Cuillier

2020

JOCI

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“…As transparency is also an e-government feature, existing e-government benchmarks need to be considered to obtain a comprehensive view on assessment methods that will unveil the role of transparency in open government. There are a variety of studies on the impact of transparency in the government domain [21][22][23][24], but none of them consider quantitative indicators that will relate transparency to the potential usage of government information by stakeholders.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…On the other hand, legally binding regulations are defined by the law in the field and, therefore, methodologies that accompany these regulations have predictable indicators. One of the most easily measurable and comparable elements of government transparency is the legislation on freedom of information (FOI) [24,29,30]. Methodologies for assessing FOI are mainly based on expert assessment of whether there is an appropriate legal framework that enables access to information of public importance.…”

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Using OpenGovB Transparency Indicator to Evaluate National Open Government Data

Milić¹,

Veljković

Stoimenov

2022

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Transparency evaluation in open government is a process of measuring the extent of transparency against a predefined set of indicators. In this paper, we address the existing initiatives regarding data and government transparency evaluation as two separate indicators and present the analysis of their advantages and drawbacks. Based on that analysis, we extend a part of the OpenGovB benchmark related to transparency in open government. What is unique about this benchmark is that it utilizes metadata of data published on the open government data portals to calculate the majority of indicators related to data transparency indicators. For the government transparency indicator evaluation, the benchmark utilizes some of the well-known transparency indicators. The article shows concrete results obtained from the application of the defined transparency evaluation model on 22 open data portals, thus demonstrating the possibilities of its application as well as the gains regarding generated results. The proposed model bridges the gap between available methodologies for evaluating transparency based on collaboration and participation and methodologies for evaluating transparency based on open data.

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Casualties of a Pandemic: Truth, Trust and Transparency

Abstract: Government agencies are hiding civic information from the public, citing the COVID-19 pandemic, at a time when they should be more transparent, not less.

Cited by 7 publications

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The “Transparency for Safety” Triangle: Developing a Smart Transparency Framework to Achieve a Safety Learning Community

The “Transparency for Safety” Triangle: Developing a Smart Transparency Framework to Achieve a Safety Learning Community

Editor's Note: A Sickness that Lingers

Using OpenGovB Transparency Indicator to Evaluate National Open Government Data

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