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Exploring the relationships between freedom of information and institutional information management in the Chinese government: An empirical study
Author(s) -
Li Siyi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501148
Subject(s) - freedom of information , china , government (linguistics) , state (computer science) , presentation (obstetrics) , work (physics) , business , people's republic , public relations , empirical research , the republic , political science , public administration , law , computer science , engineering , medicine , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , mechanical engineering , theology , algorithm , radiology
The Regulation on Opening Government Information of the People's Republic of China ‐ the Chinese version of Freedom of Information (FOI) law in other contexts ‐ was issued by the State Council in 2007 and took effect the following year. Similar to other FOI laws, the regulation stipulates two approaches for disclosing information and they are proactive disclosure and disclosure‐by‐request (DbR). This research aimed at exploring the relationships between DbR and institutional information management in China. Twenty‐five institutions of the State Council were decided to be data sources, from which data were collected by browsing websites and sending information requests. This presentation reports on the findings of the study and the future work that should follow up on the study.