Re: Paper on data availability and transparency

Thanks for sharing your paper, Martin.

The URL you provided points to Gmail. I guess the correct link is:

http://ips.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/07/17/0192512114541163

Andrea

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Martin J. Murillo <murillo@ieee.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to share the paper entitled "Evaluating the role of online data
> availability: The case of economic and institutional transparency in sixteen
> Latin American nations."
>
>
> The paper was  published in the International Political Science Review and
> can be downloaded from the link below. While the paper focuses on LatAm
> countries, the framework is very relevant for other political and
> administrative institutions. Please see abstract below and I hope you find
> it insightful.
>
> "We adopt the principal-agent framework and the asymmetry of information
> between the principal and the agent in order to approach two subjects of
> much attention and expectations: i) the formal online release of
> governmental data as a means of furnishing information, and ii) its
> contribution to government economic and institutional transparency. We
> identify important characteristics of transparency as instruments to lessen
> the information asymmetry in relevant areas (or subjects) where corruption
> and inefficiency are generally present in political institutions. We focus
> on the central governments of sixteen Latin American nations. We determine
> that, while there exists a moderate release of data relevant to areas where
> corruption generally takes place, its contribution to providing meaningful
> information to the citizenry is minimal. Our findings also show the
> importance of policy that explicitly mandates that data corresponding to
> specific areas where corruption and inefficiency take place be shared over
> the Internet; adequate levels of national online technical sophistication
> are not sufficient. We conclude that modern information technologies, as
> tools to contributing to government transparency and lessen knowledge
> divides in the evaluated areas, are not meeting expectations. Our framework
> and findings seek to utilize political science theories to contribute to an
> early understanding of the role of modern data-oriented technologies in
> government transparency, and highlight the positive and negative effects
> that these can have in the betterment of governance and the consolidation of
> democracy."
>
> https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox?compose=14baa92a0bfb4a0a
>
> Best regards,
>
> Martin



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