Right to Know Day around the world - Czech republic

Organizer: Open Society, b.a.
Date: October 2, 2006
Event: Competition „Open x Closed“

Description:The Open Society, b.a have organized in The Czech Republic a competition named „Open x  Closed“ - for the biggest "friend" and "enemy"of the access to information and awareness of public administratives among the public administration authorities in Czech republic.

This competition enables to citizens and to non-profit organizations to make visible those government and self-government bodies which provide information perfectly and those which - according to their opinion - break the Access to Information Act. The independent assessing commission was composed with regard to the wide scope of the area – there was an MP, an official of the Ministry of the Interior,  the director Transparency International CZ, the Ombudsman?s agent, an inspector of  Data Protection, both a lawyer from a non-profit organization and a commercial attorney,  a journalist.

The results of this competition will be published and the prizes will be given on Monday, 2nd October 2006 on the press conference in Celebration Hall of National Library.

 The new activity will be: Infoleague – presentation of the new interactive internet tool which compares the real contents of information provided by authorities on their web pages. Measurements are taken in terms of the transparency of decision-making processes, anti-corruption tools, information on the personal responsibility of senior employees (e.g. minutes, voting records, list of bids submitted).