RTI: How do we compare with the rest of the world?
Daily Star, September 15, 2019
RTI: How do we compare with the rest of the world?
Shamsul Bari and Ruhi Naz
With some 130 countries around the world having adopted Right to Information (RTI) laws, we now know a great deal about how citizens use this law in a variety of social, political and economic contexts—in as rich a variety of ways as there are cultures and peoples on this planet.
In the older democracies, where RTI and similar laws have been around for a while, studies show that the focus of the law has now shifted to online availability of most such information.
