The Information Commissioner's Office (ICOM) reported that only 7 of 935 government agencies published all information required by the Right to Information Act, according to a study with Transparency International conducted between November and December. ICOM also found low website coverage and disclosure rates across ministries, state-owned enterprises, hospitals and health centres.
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At a press conference on Sunday, ICOM said that in a study conducted in collaboration with Transparency International between November and December last year
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We have to move from a culture of secrecy to a culture of disclosure. Therefore, it is not possible to say whether information is not disclosed because the authorities have ordered it or because it is not given priority in the civil service
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it was established that only seven of the 935 government agencies published all the materials required by law.
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only 40 out of 53 agencies under the ministries have websites.
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the most important tool used in publishing information, the website, was present in 494 agencies
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ICOM monitored 31 state-owned enterprises (SOEs)
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found they disclosed, on average, 21 percent of what was required by law.
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These establishments have released 11 percent of the information they are legally required to disclose.
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There are 164 health centres in the country; none of which has a website.
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Nine of the 25 required voluntary disclosures are not made by any educational service provider, the office found.
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