ZAGREB, Feb 6 (Hina) - Transparency International Croatia (TIH) will launch a project introducing modern technologies to make the operation of the authorities more transparent and efficient. The project is aimed at establishing to
what extent modernised public authority can facilitate citizens' everyday life.
ZAGREB, Feb 6 (Hina) - Transparency International Croatia (TIH) will
launch a project introducing modern technologies to make the operation
of the authorities more transparent and efficient. The project is
aimed at establishing to what extent modernised public authority can
facilitate citizens' everyday life.#L#
The project, to last 18 months, will be implemented together with
Transparency International branches from Pakistan, Nigeria and Mexico,
and the Oneworld South Asia organisation, TIH president Zorislav Antun
Petrovic said.
TIH activists are developing the project strategy, after which one
body of state administration or local authority would be selected to
provide citizens with information about its activities via the
Internet.
The purpose of the project is to grant all citizens equal access to
information, which reduces the possibility of corruption.
The application of modern technologies in the countries which
cooperate with Croatia in this project has significantly improved the
relationship between civil society and bodies of authority, TI
officials from India and Mexico said.
The target of the projects implemented in those countries were
disadvantaged categories of the population, which were enabled to
direct complaints about the work of authorities to the right address.
Apart from activists from India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Mexico, a
computer science professor from Great Britain, Paul Sturgess, is
included in the project as a consultant who is expected to provide for
electronic support.
(Hina) rml