How Civil Society Organizations Close the Gap between Transparency and Accountability

Zyl, Albert van

doi:10.1111/gove.12073

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“…Moreover, we acknowledge the warning that increased transparency need not always create improved accountability. The publication of budgetary data need not imply its usability (van Zyl, 2014) or its reliability (Fox, 2007). Even if IO budget nontransparency is found, determining who to blame is difficult.…”

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Partial Two‐Way Mirror: International Organization Budget Transparency

Moloney

Stoycheva

2017

Global Policy

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This paper evaluates the budget transparency of international organizations. Building on IMF, OECD, IPSAS, and Open Budget Survey standards for sovereign‐state budget transparency, we create a 93‐item budget transparency measure reflective of international organization characteristics. International organizations are important global dispensers of accumulated knowledge. This includes the purveying of advice on member state budget transparency. Despite this role, we find only partial budget transparency among our surveyed international organizations. Nonetheless, the international organization financial management and accountability practices were more transparent than their budget process or budget disclosures.

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confidence: 99%

Partial Two‐Way Mirror: International Organization Budget Transparency

Moloney

Stoycheva

2017

Global Policy

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“…Therefore it may be necessary for the forum to collect data from other sources. This task can include searching for data, collecting data in hard copy and converting it to digital format [25], collecting data in digital format from other sources, or even asking third-parties (such as audit offices) to disclose it. 4.…”

Section: The Process Of Public Accountability and Its Tasksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Peixoto [26] explicitly refers to the "publicity condition" (publicized transparency) which implies the existence of a free press and a facilitated access to the internet as a preferred means to distribute information. While these publicity conditions exist in contemporary representative democracies, there may still be necessary additional efforts on the part of the accountability forum to further improve data visibility [25] and therefore "reach the intended public" [26]. 5.…”

Section: The Process Of Public Accountability and Its Tasksmentioning

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“…The result of previous tasks is a repository of accountability relevant, complete and high quality data. This task in the accountability process is to organize it, merge it, process it and produce new data and information [25]. This requires accountability forums such as NGOs, CSOs, or ordinary citizens to possess the time, personnel, competence, and technical capabilities to process the available data [10], [26].…”

Section: The Process Of Public Accountability and Its Tasksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Just like the courts, supervisory and sanctioning bodies have the possibility to directly enforce sanctions on public officials and public agencies. Accountability forums may try to indirectly influence these bodies through the press using 'blame and shame' or directly influence them through petitions or research support [25]. (d) Influence hierarchy.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Public Accountability ICT Support: A Detailed Account of Public Accountability Process and Tasks

Lourenço

Piotrowski

Ingrams

2015

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Part 2: Open and Smart GovernmentInternational audienceA key objective of open government programs is to promote public accountability by using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to release data on the internal working of public agencies. However, it is not clear how actual accountability (such as sanctions or rewards) may be achieved from the data disclosed. Nor it is clear how ICT in general should support it. To better understand how ICT can support open data initiated accountability processes in achieving their goal, this paper considers the three phases (information, discussion, and consequences) usually used to describe such processes. Defining ICT support for these major phases is a difficult effort, since each phase encompasses different tasks and support requirements. This paper aims to address this problem by providing a detailed account of the tasks associated with the whole public accountability process. This may be used by those responsible for open government programs to design and deploy comprehensive ICT support platforms using a task-technology fit perspective

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