Its aim is to raise awareness of every individual’s rights: to access government-held information, to know how elected officials are exercising power, and to know how tax-payers’ money is being spent.
In recognition of Right to Know Day 2006, Transparency International released a new publication, Using the Right to Information as an Anti-corruption Tool. It includes the experiences of TI’s chapters in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Peru in 2004 and 2005. The report focuses on the design of access to information laws and their implementation, and discusses how international financial institutions can improve their access to information provision.
Several TI chapters also organised activities to mark the day. TI Venezuela launched two publications devoted to information access, and organised workshops with mayors to discuss transparent local government, while TI’s Serbian chapter launched a report on the last 12 month’s progress in implementing its access to information legislation.