[kictanet] FOIA: Petition to the National Assembly

[John Walubengo]

Alex,

I wonder what is the current content of the Freedom Of
Informationi Act/Bill? 

...last time i checked it had some issues - as per the
stakeholders forum at KSMS  sometime in April this year.
Unfortunately I cant recall most of them but i recall one
particular comment. That the Bill was good but tended to
focus too much on how to facilitate access to Goverment
information at the expense of access to Private Sector
Information.

Increasingly, critical national resources(& their Data) are
being offered by the private sector and this trend is
likely to grow in future (e.g. mobile & banking services,
power and water utilites amongst others).  It would be a
waste to miss the opportunity to define explicitly how
these private enterprises would be accountable to the
public in the same spirit as the Government is expected to
be.

I wonder if the Bill is coming out strongly in this
direction - while ofcourse being sensitive to existing
business ACTs like the Companies Act, etc.

walu.
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