Transparency Task Force Meeting, Cancun 2005
February 24, 2005
Cancun, Mexico
Third International Conference of Access to Information Commissioners convened in Cancun in 2005 to discuss the issues of transparency and access to public information,and how they have have become fundamental topics, indissoluble of political and social change in the world.
Partners
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Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Information Publica
Mexico City, Mexico
As corollary of the new democratic wave of the last part of the 20th century, both subject matters are compulsory in the political agenda of every nation. This is not merely causal: once the nations consolidate an open regime and agree upon the rules of the game of access to power, typical subject matters of the‘second generation’ come up immediately. Then the discussion isn’t just access to power but how to exercise and control democratic power. And, in the core of this new dilemma we find transparency and access to information. Such reasons —circumstantial to democratization— have confirmed a true international movement in 50 countries that have approved access to information Laws and 30 other that are in a process of adopting legislations in such matter.
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Thomas S. Blanton
Task Force Member
Director of the National Security Archive
George Washington University
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Richard Calland
Task Force Member
Associate Professor in the Public Law Department
University of Cape Town
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Ann Florini
Task Force Chair
Director, Centre on Asia and Globalization
National University of Singapore
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Jamie P. Horsley
Task Force Member
Professor, Senior Research Scholar
Yale University Law School
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Laura Neuman
Task Force Member
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Ayo Obe
Task Force Member
President
Nigeria's Civil Liberties Organization
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Alasdair Roberts
Task Force Member
Professor of Law and Public Policy
Suffolk University Law School
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Shekhar Singh
Task Force Chair
Founding Member
National Campaign for People's Right to Information
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Ivan Szekely
Task Force Member
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Hanhua Zhou
Task Force Member
Director, Constitutional Law and Administrative Law Department
Chinese Academy of Social Science