Analysis

17 October 2013

Age of public servants and servants with many children

Age of public servants in terms of gender In accordance with the Law on Public Servants of Georgia the minimum age of servants in the state agencies is 21 years and 18 in local government bodies. The most problematic request for public agencies was the request for the data on average age of the servants; in most cases public information officers could not provide the information. As a result, IDFI could not determine the average age statistics of public servants in some public agen

10 October 2013

Public Disclosure of the Data about Phone Conversation Eavesdropping

Author Nino Tsukhishvili On 21st December, 2012 the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) officially requested from the Tbilisi, Batumi and Kutaisi City Courts and on 2nd May, 2013 from the Internal Affairs Ministry, the Prosecutor General Office and the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Finance the information, within the period of the of 1St November 2012 upon the acceptance of the letters, of the following statistics: 1. Number of solicitations about

4 October 2013

Organizations Exempt from the Environmental Impact Assessment (2010-2013)

According to the Law of Georgia on Environmental Impact Permit, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) may be unrestricted the activity which needs timely decision on launching the general States interests. This procedure itself implies from the public discussions. As regulated, the decision on the application of such performing activity is made by the Special Environmental Impact Assessment Council. The Minister of Environment submits the appropriate suggestions, developed by the Council

27 September 2013

Fines imposed by Patrol Police in 2011-2013

Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) has received public information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia about the total sum of the fines imposed by the Patrol Police Department for administrative offences to be paid to the state budget in the first 6 months of 2013 (January June). As it becomes clear, the total amount of fines imposed on citizens by the Patrol Police Department in the given period has amounted to 31 106 828 GEL. According to the similar in

17 September 2013

Access to Public Information in the Central Public Authorities of Georgia (2011-2013)

Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) issued the final 2012- 2013 Report to introduce the transparency rating of Public Authorities in the framework of the Project Public Information Database (www.opendata.ge). We will present the Percentage chart of transparency of the Central Public Authorities. Since the implementation of the project in 2012-2013 the Central public authorities have showed more or less transparency progress we will present the comparative data analysis

26 June 2013

Georgian Citizens detained by Russian Occupational Armed Forces

IDFI has received official information from the Ministry of Interior of Georgia, about the Georgian citizens detained by Occupational Army of the Russian Federation for crossing the occupation line. As we learn from the received document, a total of 1110 Georgian citizens have been illegally detained by the occupational forces in the period between 2009 June 2013. 474 of them have been detained at Tskhinvali occupational line, and 636 near Abkhazia. The most peo

29 April 2013

The number of registered crime has increased by 16.6% in 2013

On April 12, 2013 IDFI (Institute for Development of Freedom of Information) has addressed the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia with public information request. IDFI has requested statistical data of the crime registered in Georgia in January, February and March, 2013, according to months and articles of law. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia replied to the request on April 24, 2013. The provided information was incomplete, since it did not specify statistical inform

26 April 2013

Statistics of Public Information Release Before and After Parliamentary Elections

During 9 months of the project Public Information Database-www.opendata.ge IDFI has addressed 224 public authorities with the total of 2441 requests, 1525 of which have been replied completely. Out of 2441 requests sent by the Institute 294 have been left unanswered, 194 have been answered incompletely, there were 26 cases of refusal and in the rest 402 cases the public authorities stated that they either did not have the requested information, or had not carried out the specific action.

9 April 2013

Different Kinds of Public Information Received from the Tbilisi State University

IDFI has received public information from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The information is now accessible on our web-site. The University provided incomplete information in response to the request for the bonuses of the officials and staff and the balance of the 2012 budget, and has refused the request for the information about funded events and list of employees. In case of bonuses, Tbilisi State University has only provided sum of the bonuses given to all employees,

3 April 2013

The Response of the Chancellery of the Government of Georgia to the Recommendations of the Civil Society

IDFI On March 22nd IDFI received a letter dated March 19th from the Chancellery of the Government of Georgia which contained a response to the recommendations of the civil society, which were sent to the Office of the Prime Minister from the CSOs on February 5th. Attached to the letter were the comments from those governmental institutions that are to be tasked with specific obligations in the frameworks of the Open Government Partnership action plan according to these recommendations.