Transparency in the Municipal Public Management: An Evaluation of Rio Grande do Sul State’s Municipalities

The objective of the present study is to determine the transparency level of Rio Grande do Sul state’s municipalities, identifying the variables that explain it. This is a documental and quantitative research, observing the most recent information disclosed in the state’s transparency websites, identifying if the data disclosure is correct, through the Municipal Public Management’s Transparency Index, as well as the regression analysis and descriptive statistics. In this way, it is possible to observe that most state’s municipalities present an average level of transparency. Besides, it was observed that, from the eleven socioeconomical variables that were analyzed, only five are capable of influencing the transparency index. Therefore, many measures must still be adopted by the state’s municipal managements, so that they enforce the Access to Information Law and fulfill all of the aspects that come from the transparency.

EXPLORING RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN PAKISTAN: A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

The study attempted to analyze the role of right to information in ensuring good governance in Pakistan. The study objectives were to investigate the experiences of public information officers and civil society actors regarding the right to information contribution to good governance and to analyze the challenges in the implementation of right to information law. For the selection of sampling size, purposive sampling was used and data were collected from 11 ministries public information officers and 3 civil society actors through in depth interviews in Islamabad, Pakistan. Being qualitative study, data were analyzed by using thematic analyses. Jurgen Habermas theory of ‘Public Sphere” was used to throw light on main theme of the study. The findings indicated that right to information is an effective tool in promoting good governance along with all its features like, accountability, transparency, mutual trust between the government and general public, common man facilitation, rule of law and corruption elimination. Study concluded that right to information would be an effective tool in promoting the good governance only when hurdles that prevent it from its true implementation were removed.

Institution of Legal Support for the Turnover of Genetic Information: Paradigm of the Future of Information Law

The increased scale of genetic research in the world determines the relevance of legal regulation of relations on the turnover of genetic information. The purpose of this study is to define a new legal institution for the circulation of genetic information and the main directions of development of future legislation. The methodological basis of the study comprises empirical methods of comparison, description, interpretation; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic; private scientific methods: the method of comparative jurisprudence and the method of interpretation of legal norms. The results of the study allow the authors to state that there is a process of separation of the still few legal norms on the turnover of genetic information into a separate institution in the system of the information law branch.The developing institute should include norms (principles) of turnover and processing of genetic information. These are norms that consolidate the rights and obligations of subjects of information legal relations regarding the turnover of genetic information; norms that establish the legal regime of biological banks and national databases of genetic information; protective norms for state supervision of the activities of subjects in the field of turnover of genetic information; special norms on liability for violations of the requirements of the law.The most effective solution to the problem of legal regulation of relations on the turnover of genetic information in the Russian Federation is the adoption of a special law.The information activities of various entities in this area are often international in nature and are based on the norms established in treaties and national legislation. In this regard, it seems appropriate to launch a broad discussion of the problems of genetic information turnover at the level of the international scientific community. These should include identification of threats; identification of possible risks of using information technologies in medicine; unification of digital identification mechanisms; development of ethical codes of conduct for the scientific community; use of foresight methodology in order to develop common positions.

Penafsiran Restriktif Atas Pasal 28 Ayat (2) UU ITE

The purpose this paper to interpret the content of a law, namely is the regulation regarding the ethics of delivering criticism through social media as regulated in the ITE Law. Article 28 Paragraph (2) of the UU ITE is considered to limit constitusional rights of opinin and expression. The explanation of Article 28 Paragraph (2) transctional and electronic information law is gives different interpretations as fragments of paragraph “spreading informaton” and “causing a sense of hatred/hostility”. This considered an unclear limitation on the right to freedom opinion and expression on social media. The problem in study is how to interpret the restrictive and application the law solving problem of hate speech on social media. The method used in this study, normative juridical approach, is the carried out based on the main legal material by examining theories, concepts, legal principles and laws regulations. It can be concluded in Indonesia a legal state where every action citizens is regulated in laws, the regulatin of submitting criticism through social media which is regulated in Law no. 11 of 2008 UU ITE. The Article 28 Paragraph (2) transactional and electronic information law, gives rise to the vage normen (blurred norms). It is can be abused silencing freedom of opinion and even becoming a political weapon. In the application of this law, it is indicated that there is duplication of criminal acts which are actually vulnerable to legal uncertainty so that it has the potential to cause turmoil in society.

The Concepts of Aggressive Information Impact through the Lens of Internet Users’ Worldview Security

This article is devoted to the forensic analysis of the factors (cyberthreats) determining a negative information impact on recipients’ worldview in the Internet environment (changes in values, emotional perceptions, and expressions of will, etc.). Findings are founded on the concepts of deviant and delinquent speech behavior, the authors also outline definitions of criminogenic, aggressive, destructive, harmful, conflictogenic, and discrediting (defamatory) information and define the semantic field ‘destructiveness of information impact’. The research is based on an interdisciplinary legal and linguistic approach and uses methodology of information law (cyberlaw) and forensic speech science (forensic linguistics) for integral examination of aggressive information products (that are threatening worldview security of Internet communication) in several ways: 1) as speech actions related to law violations (verbal components that reflect actus reus of crimes, administrative offences, and civil torts); 2) as a result of communication activity; 3) as a source of forensically valuable information. The article covers such worldview security threats as defamation; libel; insult; propaganda of drugs, pornography, gambling, violence and cruelty, murder, autodestructiveness (including suicide), extremism (including terrorism); cyberbullicide; cybersuicide; cybergrooming; sexting; sex blackmail; doxing; outing; faking; astroturfing; cybertrolling; flaming; cyberbullying; cybermobbing; harassment; impersonation; exclusion (ostracism); stigmatization; cyberstalking; threats; hating; ‘happy slapping’, etc. The authors formulated the list of offenses, entailing the commitment of criminogenic and conflictogenic speech actions (in accordance with the current Russian civil, administrative and criminal legislation), as well as the list of types of information prohibited or restricted in distribution as harmful to the health and development of children (according to the current Russian legislation) are of urgent applied significance

ICT Governance in the Context of Smart Cities: A Study in Brazilian Municipalities

ICT resources are essential to support, manage, and innovate cities services to citizens, especially in reference to smart cities context. From this perspective, ICT governance is fundamental to guarantee a return on investments and effectiveness in cities' administration. Based on the Brazilian cities best ranked in the Connected Smart Cities index, this work analyzed ICT governance practices in those cities. The results identified a lack of governance practices in most cities, a lack of active ICT governance transparency, and non-compliance with Brazilian access information law; thus, a set of lessons learned is structured for cities. Future studies can establish a good practice catalog and guidance as a baseline for an ICT open governance approach.

«LAW OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE» AND ITS PLACE IN THE SYSTEM OF INFORMATION LAW

The paper is devoted to contemporary problems of legal support for the development, introduction and use of artificial intelligence and robotics systems as one of the vectors of the development of Russian information law. The purpose of the study is to The aim of the study is to gain scientific insight into the place of a set of legal norms governing relations associated with this digital technology in the system of modern Russian law. In the course of the study, a group of interrelated methods is used, the choice of which is determined by the subject of scientific work, including system analysis, generalization, and the formal-logical method. As a result of the study, it is concluded that at present there are objective conditions and the need to establish a complex legal institution – the law of artificial intelligence in the information law system. The paper substantiates the complex nature of this institution and notes that the law of artificial intelligence, being a complex formation, is associated with a group of legal institutions of information law – institutions of personal data, information of limited access, Internet law, identification, responsibility in the information sphere and others.