The anti-corruption watchdog physique in a media narrate this present day (27 September) additionally made a 13-point suggestion to make certain the fashionable accurate to details, details accessibility, public participation and transparency
BSS
27 September, 2024, 05:55 pm
Final modified: 27 September, 2024, 05:59 pm
Transparency Global Bangladesh (TIB) has called for streamlining the Knowledge Price Bangladesh and bringing amendments to the Honest to Knowledge (RTI) Act so folks can reap the assist of the accurate to details.
On the occasion of Global Day for Fashionable Gain entry to to Knowledge 2024, the anti-corruption watchdog physique in a media narrate this present day (27 September) additionally made a 13-point suggestion to make certain the fashionable accurate to details, details accessibility, public participation and transparency.
TIB additionally laid emphasis on stopping the recurrence of the culture of withholding details fancy within the past in region of advocating for the usage of the accurate to details as a tool to motivate the folks.
TIB Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman acknowledged that out of the ordinary optimism appeared sooner than the nation thru the pupil-folks revolt, unheard of sacrifices and the autumn of the authoritarian regime, sparking a good pledge to rebuild a “Original Bangladesh”.
“Freedom of speech, the accurate to dissent, and the unrestricted streak with the circulation of details are integral aspirations of this Original Bangladesh,” he acknowledged, including that guaranteeing the free streak with the circulation of details is elementary to this belief in rising a clear, responsible and corruption-free Bangladesh.
“We have to always promptly provoke the vital amendments to the RTI Act and put a non-partisan Knowledge Price to entire the culture of secrecy and foster bigger transparency,” acknowledged Iftekharuzzaman.
In the recommendations in the direction of bringing amendments to the RTI Act, TIB pressured the necessity for effective implementation of the RTI Act as one of many tools to fetch certain freedom of speech and the accurate to dissent.
Moreover, it stood for inserting off all correct and institutional barriers, particularly digital surveillance constructions on folks created thru the shadowy laws, fancy the Knowledge and Communication Technology Act, Digital Security Act and Cybersecurity Act.
In show to fetch the Knowledge Price Bangladesh more realistic, TIB urged a entire streamlining of this organization, including appointing competent and non-partisan free persons as commissioners in a clear route of.
It additionally suggested guaranteeing the offer of digital tools to facilitate get entry to to details; amending and repealing present laws if these contradict the Honest to Knowledge Act, 2009; and guaranteeing the vital correct security for get entry to to details within the Honest to Knowledge Act.
