Transparency and the Open Society
Practical Lessons for Effective Policy
1st Edition
Published on 20. June 2016
376 pages
978-1-4473-2537-6 (ISBN)
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Using case studies from around the world, Transparency and the open society surveys the adoption of transparency globally, providing an essential framework for assessing its likely performance as a policy and the steps that can be taken to make it more effective.
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founder and chair of the Open Public Services Network at the Royal Society of Arts.
Founder and chair of the Open Public Services Network at the Royal Society of Arts.
Founder and chair of the Open Public Services Network at the Royal Society of Arts.
Institute for Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London
Visiting professor at the Institute for Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London. He is based in Melbourne, Australia where he is a director of Telstra Health
Visiting professor at the Institute for Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London. He is based in Melbourne, Australia where he is a director of Telstra Health
Content
- Intro
- TRANSPARENCY ANDTHE OPEN SOCIETY
- Contents
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Thanks
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part One. Background
- 1. History and methods
- Politics: Rousseau, openness and trust
- Politics: Locke, Bentham and information as a right
- Economics
- Science
- Summary of the benefits of transparency
- 2. Critiques of transparency
- The financial cost of transparency
- The damaging and negative effects of transparency
- The ineffectiveness of transparency
- Summary of the downsides to transparency
- Part Two. Definitions and models
- 3. Definitions of transparency
- Transparency as fairness
- Some consequences of defining transparency in terms of fairness
- 4. Fair allocation systems
- A model of allocation systems
- Transparency in allocation systems
- Four ways of evidencing unfair allocations
- 5. Population-level transparency
- The benefits of population level transparency
- The use of population outcomes in assessing fairness
- 6. Equality of narrative power
- Information is not enough
- Plural and equal access to data
- 7. Transparency in an age of big data
- A world of diminishing transparency
- Three degrees of transparency
- The benefits of Transparency 3.0
- Section B | Practice
- Part One. Transparency 1.0
- 8. Every day is a fight for information
- 'Transparency is not easy for politicians'
- The appeal of ineffective transparency
- 9. Access to information laws (ATI)
- Evidence that ATI reduces corruption
- ATI, the media and the public interest
- ATI and data
- ATI and privacy
- ATI and access to personal data
- Summary
- 10. Social audit and public reporting
- Evidence that Social Audit works in developing economies
- Evidence that public reporting works in developed economies
- Reasons for social audit effectiveness
- 11. International initiatives
- How effective is the EITI
- 12. Open data and forced disclosure
- Open data and corruption
- Open data and privacy
- 13. Editorial control
- Methods of editorial control
- Aggregation and granularity
- 14. Regulation and transparency
- Regulatory failure and transparency
- Data sharing and regulation
- Part Two. Transparency 2.0
- 15. Ceding control of the data
- Methods for improving reliability of data
- Open Data Platforms
- 16. Independent narratives
- The benefits of independent narratives
- On what terms should population data be shared?
- Structure of data organisations
- 17. Getting my own data
- Personal data stores
- Individual rights over data
- Digital inclusion
- 18. Surveillance, transparency and privacy
- Surveillance and monitoring
- Opting out from surveillance, monitoring and research
- Part Three. Transparency 3.0
- 19. Artificial intelligence and allocation systems
- Ruled by robots
- A sense of urgency
- The role of the data organisation in relation to AI
- 20. What happens next?
- What can governments do?
- What can citizens and NGOs interested in promoting transparency do?
- The digital you and the open society
- Index
