Governmental Transparency, Information Access, and Information Privacy

2013 ◽  
pp. 16-40 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Technology ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Information Privacy ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Information Transparency ◽  
Government Transparency ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Right To Information ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores the tensions that exist among government transparency, information access, and information privacy. Computer technology has the capability to offer much to today’s public organizations. It has the potential to bring about transparency in the way government conducts its business, but information transparency has two countervailing sides and numerous obstacles. The debate over an individual’s right to privacy and the public’s right to information has a long and checkered past, and at no time before has the debate become more critical. The chapter closes with a discussion of the tangential obstacles that often impede government transparency and offers guidelines on how to navigate this thicket of competing demands.

scholarly journals Citizens’ Right to Privacy and Right to Information Access in Smart Cities: Evaluating the Smart City Initiative of West Baltimore

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunyup Park
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Right To Information ◽  
The Right

This paper will detail smart city initiatives in West Baltimore and evaluate different approaches to ensure the right to privacy and the right to information access of lower-income communities of color. After evaluating these approaches, this paper proposes recommendations to facilitate the right to privacy and the right to information access in lower-income communities.

The adaptation of design thinking in auditing

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda MEIJER-WASSENAAR ◽  
Diny VAN EST
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

How can a supreme audit institution (SAI) use design thinking in auditing? SAIs audit the way taxpayers’ money is collected and spent. Adding design thinking to their activities is not to be taken lightly. SAIs independently check whether public organizations have done the right things in the right way, but the organizations might not be willing to act upon a SAI’s recommendations. Can you imagine the role of design in audits? In this paper we share our experiences of some design approaches in the work of one SAI: the Netherlands Court of Audit (NCA). Design thinking needs to be adapted (Dorst, 2015a) before it can be used by SAIs such as the NCA in order to reflect their independent, autonomous status. To dive deeper into design thinking, Buchanan’s design framework (2015) and different ways of reasoning (Dorst, 2015b) are used to explore how design thinking can be adapted for audits.

Guarding the Guards

2011 ◽  
pp. 260-275
Author(s):  
Seumas Miller
Keyword(s):  
Computer Technology ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Workplace Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring And Surveillance

This chapter is concerned with the use of communication and computer technology to surveil and monitor the performance and activity of police officers. First, while I argue that there is an in-principle difference between police officers and most other occupations in relation to workplace monitoring and surveillance, there is also a sameness, viz. police officers retain their individual right to privacy in the workplace. Second, combating crime and corruption in the workplace depends on the desire to do good and avoid evil on the part of those monitored and surveilled. Unjustified, covert, and intrusive monitoring and surveillance will undermine trust and ultimately undermine the attempt to combat crime and corruption. Third, notwithstanding the development of a variety of useful methods of monitoring and surveillance to deal with the problem of policing the police, an in-principle problem of guarding the guards remains.

Influence of Computer Technology on the Typefaces Design

2014 ◽  
Vol 687-691 ◽  
pp. 2561-2564
Author(s):  
Jin Lei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Computer Technology ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Subject Design ◽  
Font Design ◽  
The Way

Computer technology has changed the way designers work, font design requires the use of computer technology. Designers are always subject design, how to effectively use the computer to use this tool for designers, rather than becoming a vassal of the computer. This article is in the current situation font design of the computer age, to explore how computer technology affects the font design.

Computer-Based Assessment of Cognitive Abilities: Current Status/Future Directions

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-147
Author(s):  
Ben F. Eller ◽  
Alan S. Kaufman ◽  
James E. McLean
Keyword(s):  
Computer Technology ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The Impact

Rapid advances in the computer industry and the concomitant knowledge explosion have created a revolution in the information handling electronics industry. The continued proliferation of computer technology in the educational environment appears inevitable. There seems to be little doubt that recent advances in educational technology will have important consequences for educational institutions at all levels during the coming decades. Students, teachers, and administrators alike have already come to rely on bibliographic and statistical data bases, automated dictionaries, micrographic storage and retrieval systems, and specialized interactive cable and videotext systems for information access. Despite the impact of computer technology in the school environment, guidelines for planning and developing useable software for assessing cognitive abilities has warranted little attention in educational literature. This article suggests that computer-based support systems are now available which could be instrumental in solving the problems associated with cognitive assessment.

scholarly journals The Right to Information: Whether or not to Publish Information on Salaries of Employees Paid from Public Funds

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
Kateřina Frumarová
Keyword(s):  
Public Authority ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Right To Information ◽  
The Right

The right to information is an important instrument for a control of public authority in any democratic state. Ocasionally, however, there may be a conflict between this right and the  right to privacy. In this context, the Czech Supreme Administrative Court was tasked with  solving the question of whether information on the salaries of employees who are paid from  public funds can be published.

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