From  NEW! Australia: Reining in Tech Contractors, Examining the challenges of outsourcing key government roles and responsibilities to corporate tech actors — and how our governance must evolve to constrain their powerFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this chapter, Malone examines how governments in liberal democracies outsource critical public services to private technology firms, granting those firms secrecy protections that undermine … |
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From  NEW! Conclusion: Summarizing the case for reform and renewal on the path to a better CanadaFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this conclusion, Malone examines how legislative safeguards have been weakened while anti-democratic measures have advanced under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government. |
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From  NEW! Denmark: Zero Tolerance for Graft and Bribes in Government, Exploring how a society can build resilience against corruption when it comes to government spendingFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this chapter, Malone contrasts Denmark’s zero-tolerance anti-corruption culture with Canada’s recurring procurement scandals. |
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From  NEW! Estonia: E-Courts and Easy and Fast Access to Justice, Considering access to justice in the design and delivery of digital systems to make the justice system accessible for all in the twenty-first centuryFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this chapter, Malone compares Estonia’s digital justice system with Canada’s ongoing struggles over accessing court records. |
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From  NEW! Finland: Lobbyists Out of the Shadows — Automatic Public Access to Registries, Keeping an eye on the murky world of lobbying with open data, digital registries, and default disclosureFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this chapter, Malone traces Finland’s 2019 lobbying scandal into the 2023 Transparency Register, then contrasts that open-data achievement with Canada’s narrow, poorly enforced … |
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From  NEW! Iceland: Protecting Whistleblowers and Muckrakers Speaking, Safeguarding whistleblowing, press freedom, and investigative journalism to maintain healthy information ecosystemsFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this chapter, Malone traces how Iceland’s 2008 banking collapse catalysed sweeping whistleblower and press-freedom reforms, including the 2010 Icelandic Modern Media Initiative. |
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From  NEW! Introduction: Taking stock of the decline of transparency and accountability governance in Canada by looking beyond the United States and examining ourFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this chapter, Malone examines the steady decline of transparency and accountability in Canadian governance, tracing how the country has slipped on major international indices since the 1990s. |
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From  NEW! Ireland: How Government Transparency Unlocks Economic Growth, Evaluating how freedom of information laws produce prosperity and economicFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this chapter, Malone examines how Ireland’s 1998 Freedom of InformationAct, born from corruption tribunals, fostered transparent governance and economic growth during the Celtic Tiger era. |
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From  NEW! Netherlands: No “Disappearing” Text Messages — the Nokiagate, Assessing the growing practice of government officials relying on disappearing text messages to sidestep oversight and accountabilityFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this chapter, Malone examines the2022 Nokiagate scandal in which Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was caught deleting government text messages, and contrasts the Netherlands’ transparency … |
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From  NEW! New Zealand: Open-by-Default — Assuming the Public’s Right to Access, Discovering how governments can proactively release information, adopt an open-by-default approach, and shift to transparency by designFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this chapter, Malone examines New Zealand’s open-by-default transparency model, illustrated by the 2011 disclosure of Peter Thiel’s citizenship dossier. |
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From  NEW! Norway: No Hiding the Past — the Public’s Overriding Right to Know, Evaluating when sensitive documents turn into historical records that no longer require confidentiality — and releasing them by defaultFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this chapter, Malone examines Norway’s openness-by-default declassification system, the Quisling treason archive, and Canada’s Access to Information Act. |
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 NEW! Open Governments, Secret CanadaHiding Information Other Countries Share |
Matt Malone has travelled the world to see how other countries have made information accessible to their citizens. In country after country, he found that officials have learned to live with (and … |
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From  NEW! Singapore: Push vs. Pull Information Sharing — Treating Public Access as a Given, Discussing the role of open data in stimulating innovation through partnerships with government, the private sector, and civil societyFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this chapter, Malone examines how Singapore treats public access to government data as a default, contrasting this proactive "push" strategy with Canada’s reactive, … |
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From  NEW! Sweden: Balancing the Public’s Right to Privacy and the Public’s Right to Know, Looking at privacy challenges that arise from embracing transparency, with a focus on the publication of criminal conviction informationFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this chapter, Malone examines Sweden’s problems with transparency under the European Union privacy law, contrasting this struggle with Canada’s, Access to Information Act. |
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From  NEW! Uruguay: Building a Public Service Citizens Can Trust — Tackling Government Conflicts, Studying effective strategies and best practices for managing conflicts of interest that may arise among government officialsFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this chapter, Malone examines Uruguay’s broad conflict-of-interest regime administered by JUTEP and contrasts it with Canada’s government transparency frameworks. |
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From  NEW! Venice Commission: Dogs That Watch and Bite, Investigating how to properly create, fund, and support effective watchdogs to defend and serve the public interestFrom: Open Governments, Secret Canada |
In this chapter, Malone examines how Canada’s watchdog institutions fall short of the Venice Commission’s 2019 standards for independence, funding, and enforcement. |
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