Transparency and the open society : practical lessons for effective policy /

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Greater transparency is increasingly seen as the answer to a wide range of social issues by governments, NGOs, and businesses around the world. However, evidence of its impact is mixed. Using case studies from around the world including India, Tanzania, the UK and US, Transparency and the open socie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Taylor, Roger, 1965- (Autor), Kelsey, Tim (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2016.
Temas:
Transparency in government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
Cross-cultural studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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.

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