Open Governance and Anti-Corruption

1 March 2011

Public Authorities of Georgia (Constantine Janjghava)

Public Authorities of Georgia Public authorities in most cases have many general characteristic features (management, organization, structure, legislative acts that regulate their activities, tasks and objectives, functions and competencies, state control mechanisms, accountability on targeted use of budget funds, symbolics etc) and what is most important is the condition that all official documents stored in these institutions

1 March 2011

Short Review of Legal Foundations of e-Government and e-Transparency in Georgia (Constantine Janjghava)

Short Review of Legal Foundations of e-Government and e-Transparency in Georgia The presented short review of the legislative base of Georgia on e-Governance and e-Transparency makes clear that some legislative regulation is to be made in the future. First of all, it must be mentioned that the Government is on the first stage of transformation to the e-Government. It is natural that the legislative base at this stage is not so well-developed for state bodies and public employees as well a

1 March 2011

E-Governance and E-Transparency – International Tendencies and Georgia (Levan Avalishvili)

E-Governance and E-Transparency International Tendencies and Georgia we may say that positive tendencies are observed in Georgia in the direction of e-Governance development. Modern informational technologies are introduced in practice and significant electronic projects are planned. Governmental commission supporting e-Governance development has been operating since 2007. The Commission is directly

23 February 2011

Presentation of a new book

The Institute for Development of Freedom of Information will conduct a presentation of a new book Electronic transparency in Georgia. The book was published in the framework of the project Monitoring of Governmental Agencies Informational Resources (official web-sites) which was financed by the Open Society Institute and the National Security Archive. The book is related to the tendencies of development of electronic government and electronic transparency in Georgia and worldwide, also to the

20 December 2010

Information on Salaries, Bonuses and Communication Expenses of Government Officials Opened to the Public

Information on Salaries, Bonuses and Communication Expenses of Government Officials Opened to the Public On December 16, a new internet portal of public information www.opendata.geopened. The web page provides information on budgets, reserve funds and payroll funds of different ministries as well as bonuses received by ministers and other public officials. Communication and fuel expenses of government officials

30 October 2010

Training on the Practice of Requesting Public Information and International Experience Sharing.

On October 22 the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) held a special training for those concerned about the requesting public information issue. The meeting was held at the office of the Open Society Georgia Foundation and was opened by Giorgi Kldiashvili, the Director of the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information. Training was conducted by Thomas Blanton, Director of the National Security Archive (the United States of America), Ivan Pavlov, Chairman of the

21 October 2010

The First Meeting of the Media Club

The first meeting of the Media Club initiated in the framework of the Public Information Online Resources Database project financed by the Open Society Georgia Foundation was held on October 1st in the office of the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information. During the meeting media representatives were informed about the major objectives of the project that comprises displaying different types of public information on the Institutes web-site. Furthermore, it was noted that

1 October 2010

Presentation of the new project Monitoring of Governmental Agencies Informational Recourses

On September 28 in connection with the International Right to Know Day the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information held a presentation of the new project Monitoring of Governmental Agencies Informational Recourses funded by the Open Society-Georgia at the Office of the Open Society-Georgia Foundation. The project aims to make a new web-page where public information obtained by the organization will be thematically stored in the Institutes online database for public access. Th

31 August 2010

International Conference in Aghrevan (Armenia) on Freedom of Information

A second International Conference on Freedom of Information was held in Aghrevan (Armenia) on July 11 through July 14. The first similar meeting took place in Telavi in May, 2009 (http://www.idfi.ge/?cat=newstopic=50=en). The organizer of the conference was the National Security Archive (USA), and the host organization was the Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression (Armenia). The participants invited to the conference from Georgia were non-governmental organization working on the issu

21 May 2010

E-Governance in Georgia: World Tendencies

Ketevan Rostiashvili Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor E-Governance in Georgia: World Tendencies Development of newest digital technologies, especially development of Internet with unprecedented zoom and use, faces administration of government and arranging principles toward the new tasks. Implementation of digital democracy and electronic governance is a result of unprecedented increase of informational technologies and communications in western states.