Podpora Obamovi iniciativi za transparentnost
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Odprto pismo skupine organizacij in posameznikov, ki se zavzemamo za odprto družbo (Global Openess Community), v podporo iniciativi za transparentnost, ki jo je podal ameriški predsednik Obama
Spodaj podpisane organizacije in posamezniki, ki širom sveta zagovarjamo pravico dostopa do javnih informacij pozdravljamo trud ameriškega predsednika Obame, da prekine s preteklimi trendi in prične s promocijo visokih standardov transparentnosti delovanja vlade. Še posebej pozdravljamo pobudo, da ima pravica dostopa do informacij prednost in prevlada tudi kadar obstaja dvom ter opredelitev izrecne dolžnosti javnih institucij, da razkrivajo informacije hitro in v obliki, ki omogoča javnosti, da jih pripravljene najdejo in uporabijo.
Samoiniciativno razkrivanje javnih informacij je, skupaj s pravico do zahteve in prejetja informacij, mednarodno priznano kot temeljni element pravice dostopa do javnih informacij.
Predsednik Obama se je s priznavanjem pomembnosti odprtosti vlad za demokracijo izkazal za svetovnega vodjo na tem področju. Pozivamo vlade širom sveta, da tudi same na tak način promovirajo transparentnost in spoštovanje pravice dostopa do javnih informacij.
Prav tako pa pozivamo predsednika Obamo naj poskrbi, da se njegovi pozivi uresničijo tudi v praksi, v skladu z njihovim pomenom in namenom.
Zagotavljanje implementacije teh standardov je ideal, ki naj pomeni inspiracijo vladam širom sveta.
S spoštovanjem,
• Access Info Europe, Helen Darbishire, Executive Director (Spain)
• Access to Information Programme, Gergana Jouleva, Executive Director (Bulgaria)
• Ad IDEM/Canadian Media Lawyers Association, Paul Schabas, President (Canada)
• American Civil Liberties Union, Caroline Fredrickson, Washington Legislative Office, Director (USA)
• Arab Freedom of Information Network, Said Essoulami, Executive Director
• ARTICLE 19, Toby Mendel, Senior Legal Counsel
• Asociación por los Derechos Civiles, Roberto Saba, Executive Director (Argentina)
• Association for Freedom of Thoughts and Expression, Mohamed Omran (Egypt)
• Bank Information Center, Chad Dobson, Executive Director (USA)
• BilgiEdinmeHakki.Org, Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Director (Turkey)
• Campaign for Freedom of Information, Maurice Frankel, Director (UK)
• Carter Center, Laura Neuman, Associate Director and Access to Information Project Manager (USA)
• Center for Development and Democratization of Institutions, Ilir Aliaj, Executive Director (Albania)
• Center for Independent Journalism, Ioana Avadani, Executive Director (Romania)
• Center for Promotion of Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, Vasile Spinei, President (Moldova)
• Center of Access to Public Information, Edison Lanza, Director (Uruguay)
• Centre for Media Freedom Middle East and North Africa, Said Essoulami, Executive Director
• DELNA - Transparency International Latvia, Inese Voika, President (Latvia)
• Due Process of Law Foundation, Eduardo Bertoni, Executive Director
• Electronic Privacy Information Center, Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director (USA)
• Foundation Open Society Institute, Dance Danilovska, Project Coordinator (Macedonia)
• Freedom Forum, Santosh Sigdel, Executive Director (Nepal)
• Freedom of Information Center of Armenia, Shushan Doydoyan, President (Armenia)
• Freedom of Information Coalition, Edetaen Ojo, Coordinator (Nigeria)
• Freedom of Information Coalition, Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai, Executive Director (Sierra Leone)
• Fund for an Open Society, Miodrag Milosavljevic, Project Coordinator (Serbia)
• Fundacion Pro Acceso, Moisés Sánchez, Executive Director (Chile)
• Fundar, Miguel Pulido Jiménez, Coordinator (México)
• GYLA, Tamar Gurchiani, Project Coordinator (Georgia)
• Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, Balázs Dénes, Executive Director (Hungary)
• Information Commissioner of Republic of Slovenia, Natasa Pirc, Information Commissioner (Slovenia)
• Institute for Information Freedom Development in Russia, Ivan Pavlov, Lawyer and Chairman (Russia)
• Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, Andrés Mejía (Colombia)
• Jamaicans for Justice, Carolyn Gomes, Executive Director (Jamaica)
• Media Institute of Southern Africa, Sampa Kangwa-Wilkie, Program Specialist (Southern African Region)
• Media Rights Agenda, Edetaen Ojo, Executive Director (Nigeria)
• Movement for Freedom of Information in Israel, Roy Peled, Executive Director (Israel)
• National Freedom of Information Coalition, Charles Davis, Executive Director (USA)
• National Security Archive, Tom Blanton, Director (USA)
• New York State Committee on Open Government, Robert J. Freeman, Executive Director (USA)
• Open Society Institute, Aryeh Neier, President (USA)
• Poder Ciudadano – Transparency International, Laura Alonso, Executive Director (Argentina)
• Pro Media, Klime Babunski (Macedonia)
• PROETICA – Transparency International, Cecilia Blondet, Executive Director (Peru)
• PROVIDUS, Linda Austere, Policy Researcher (Latvia)
• Public Citizen, Adina Rosenbaum, Attorney (USA)
• Right to Know Coalition of Nova Scotia, Darce Fardy, President (Canada)
• Society for Democratic Initiatives, Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai, Executive Director (Sierra Leone)
• Statewatch, Tony Bunyan, Director
• Sunshine Week, Debra Gersh Hernandez, Coordinator (USA)
• Sustentia, Carlos Cordero, Executive Director (Spain)
• The Canadian Association of Professional Access and Privacy Administrators, Sharon Polsky, National Chair (Canada)
• Transparency International – Secretariat, Andrea Figari, Global Programmes Manager (Germany)
• Transparency International Anti-corruption Center, Amalia Kostanyan, Chairwoman (Armenia)
• Transparency International Croatia, Zorislav Antun Petrović, President (Croatia)
• Transparency International Israel, Galia Sagi, CEO (Israel)
• Transparency International Russia, Marina Savintseva, Programme Co-ordinator (Russia)
• Transparency International Slovakia, Emilia Beblava, President (Slovakia)
• Transparency Serbia, Program Director, Nemanja Nenadic, (Serbia)
• Wobbing Europe, Brigitte Alfter, Editor (Europe)
• Youth Initiative for Human Rights, Sarah Maliqi, Executive Director (Kosovo)
• Francesca Fanucci, International Human Rights Lawyer
• John Edwards, FOI Advocate (New Zealand)
• Natalia Torres, MSc Public Policy (Argentina)
• Ricardo Corcuera, Legal Advisor in Human Rights (Perú)
• Richard Calland, Programme Director: Economic Governance, Idasa (South Africa)
• Roger Vleugels, Lecturer and Legal Advisor FOIA (The Netherlands)
• Susanne Tam, Ethics Consultant, (Israel)
• Walter Keim (Norway)
Obama’s initiative is available at:
Available at http://www.fas.org/sgp/obama/foia012109.html