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Qualitative analysis of websites and surveys will provide a
guideline-like framework that governments may be able to use to
organize their transparency and access to information web sites.
Hopefully, this suggested framework would help supervise the
government and provide evaluators with more tools to measure
transparency beyond the compliance of law.
3.1 Accountability Approach
The ten best ranked access to information and transparency (or
similar) websites in the world as presented in the literature
previously reviewed will be analyzed to gather best practices that
show high evolution in terms of e-Transparency. Already existing
practices of accountability will be identified and incorporated into
a framework.
3.2 Universal Content Skeleton
One of the main gaps observed in the literature reviewed is the
lack of a content skeleton for those websites that goes beyond the
standard list set up by the law. In order to be able to convince
government and academia to accept the contents proposed by such
a skeleton, there needs to be some sort of philosophical theory that
is universal (within a democratic context) and that cannot be
contested. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights offers a
perfect platform for this purpose, because of its universality, its
world-wide acceptance, and its depth.
The list of the human rights contained in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights will be compared to the mandatory
contents that the LFTAIP demands, and possible gaps will be
identified. Additionally, human-rights oriented information
architecture will be proposed.
In order to incorporate the citizen´s point of view in regards to
what a government should be mainly accountable for, a survey
will be conducted, where citizens will be required to list top-ofmind
information that they would expect the government to
publish. They will also be asked to rank from a list of information
that governments publish which ones do they think are more
important, and explain, how many times in that year they have had
to use that information; finally, citizens will be proposed to list the
names of three activities that they perform weekly in which they
think the government is involved. The outcomes of this survey
will also be considered in the elaboration of a content skeleton.
3.3 Usability and Website Friendliness
A detailed compilation of usability, accessibility and friendliness
criteria will be listed, based on the studies cited. Also, a list of
information pushed by the agencies as useful will be analyzed,
and interviews will be held with the people responsible of both
initiatives in order to assess their success and challenges.
The resultant framework will constitute a list of elements to be
incorporated within future evaluations, but will not provide
specific or new metrics for those evaluations.
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