Open Government Freedom of Information and Privacy [Paperback]

What does open government mean in practice? This book offers an authoritative and highly topical look at the implementation of reform from senior academics and civil servants. Britain's situation and future requirements are set in context by insights from other Westminster systems of government, namely Australia, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand. Each of these accounts is itself an original contribution to the literature on that country's experience. Throughout, the emphasis in upon freedom of information and privacy issues.Notes on Contributors Preface PART I: BRITAIN Freedom of Information: the Constitutional Aspects; V. Bogdanor Open Government: the Development of Policy in the United Kingdom in the 1990s; D. Wilkinson Archives and Open Government; A. McDonald Privacy and Openness: Data Protection, Privacy and Confidentiality; E. France Balancing Privacy and Freedom of Information: Policy Options in the United Kingdom; R. Hazell PART II: OTHER WESTMINSTER SYSTEMS The Rise and Decline of Freedom of Information in Australia; G. Terrill Open Government in New Zealand; J. Aitken Freedom of Information and Open Government in Canada; R.P. Gillis Developing Freedom of Information Legislation in Ireland: G. Kearney and A. Stapleton Appendix: Post-war Information Access Legislation in Western Democracies Bibliography IndexJUDITH AITKEN Chief Executive, New Zealand's Education Review Office and formerly Lecturer in Political Science, Victoria UniversityVERNON BOGDANOR Professor of Government, University of OxfordELIZABETH FRANCE Data protection Registrar, the Home OfficeROBERT PETER GILLIS President of RPG Information Services, Canada and formerly Director of Information, Security and Communications Policy, Canadian Federal Treasury BoardROBERT HAZELL Director, Constitution Unit, School of Public Policy, University College, LondonGERRY KEARNEY Principal Officer in the Irish Department of Finance; worked on Irish freedom of information legislationAIlã{