Michael Gurstein, Executive Director of Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training, has said for government to promote transparency and accountability, establishment of information databases that are easily accessible to the public are very essential.
He said the Ivorian government can promote transparency by making information on its activities publicly available. This he said would promote the rule of law and strengthen citizens’ participation in governance.
“By making information available to citizens and to the rest of the world, it would allow information sharing on agriculture investment and various economic sectors, to showcase to the world progress and lapses in the Sierra Leone,” he said.
“In India they found it difficult to pass the Freedom to Information bill into law but when they finally did it helped them greatly and they are now saying that it is the most important bill they had ever passed to law in India because it gives their citizens the power to know about the activities of their country.”
