Insight on freedom of information

It’s hard to confess that our country is one of the most corrupt, and to come to think about it; our country has the highest population of believers of the church. Freedom is our core of action for peace, to have transparent governance is like living a truthful life. For me freedom of information is an expansion of freedom of speech; which is today understood more generally as freedom of expression in any medium, be it orally, in writing, print, through the Internet or through art. This means that the protection of freedom of speech as a right includes not only the content, but also the means of expression.

Greater access to information will, in general, empower us to hold our public officials accountable and to participate in government processes that are being opened to us by this administration. For instance, greater access to information on government projects and spending will allow civil society organizations to make more meaningful and accurate inputs. For sure, it will empower our government investigators and their citizen-partners to run after corrupt officials. Following and adopting this law will surely help us in our education.

In my belief, freedom of information has been spoken many times as a sign of change in the culture of secrecy. It is worth reflecting on what this means. I take culture in this sense to be the ideas, beliefs and values which are shared by public servants and which affect their approach to their work. The culture of secrecy is often reflected in the attitude of individual public servants, but changing the attitude of individual public servants will not of itself change the culture of the public service. This is because that culture informs many of the practices and procedures which public servants have accepted in the past.

So in this case, I’m slightly confuse whether it will a good effect, but who knows this might work to reduce corruption in our country.