Transparency and the Open Society : : Practical Lessons for Effective Policy / / Roger Taylor, Tim Kelsey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Taylor, Roger,; Kelsey, Tim,
• MitwirkendeR: Noveck, Beth Simone,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

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 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. It addresses the role of transparency in the context of growing use by governments and businesses of surveillance and database driven decision making. The book is written for anyone involved in the use of transparency whether campaigning from outside or working inside government or business to develop policies.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Theory -- Background -- History and methods -- Critiques of transparency -- Definitions and models -- Definitions of transparency -- Fair allocation systems -- Population-level transparency -- Equality of narrative power -- Transparency in an age of big data -- Practice -- Transparency 1.0 -- Every day is a fight for information -- Access to information laws (ATI) -- Social audit and public reporting -- International initiatives -- Open data and forced disclosure -- Editorial control -- Regulation and transparency -- Transparency 2.0 -- Ceding control of the data -- Independent narratives -- Getting my own data -- Surveillance, transparency and privacy -- Transparency 3.0 -- Artificial intelligence and allocation systems -- What happens next? -- Index