Empowering Democratic Governance Through RTI and Data Reporting
This content highlights the crucial role of Right to Information (RTI) and data reporting in ensuring transparent governance, empowering stakeholders, and saving lives through uncovering hidden figures. It emphasizes the significance of using these tools to educate the public, hold rulers accountable, and facilitate positive changes in society. The narrative underscores how RTI can serve as a transformative force in enhancing democratic processes, media reporting, and public awareness.
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RTI, data and better reporting Sanjoy Hazarika Director, CHRI
To educate the public -- but a far greater role To ensure transparent and greater and better democratic governance Where rulers are held to their own words and facts Against a matrix that is rigorous and measurable More and more media professionals are using these tools Provides the tools I call Triple 4
Triple 4 Educating: the public, the stakeholder and enabling them to better use their own data Empowering: media, researchers, CSOs but also the public Extracting: providing/mining information from areas where govts and organizations didn t earlier even look and put out for public knowledge Engineering: RTI can help develop a real map of what s happening in the country
Saving Lives: Hidden Figures Save lives; at minimum -- it can improve governance Every day, an estimated 180 children go missing in India. That s 65,700 per year The number of untraced children nearly doubled between 2013 and 2015, from about 34,000 to nearly 63,000 Delhi Police say 22 children go missing here every day Used for organized crimes, organ harvesting, illegal child labour and trafficking
Often media sees this as too slow, not worth investment of time and money; this is a a real challenge to all of us but esp CIC and SICs Yet, experiences of Indian Express, Business Standard, Amar Ujala and others with more and more RTI units show that light of information, robustly examined and explained, with clear focus and analysis, can inform, shock, shake tool for changes in public perceptions but also for good governance
Lion Training tool for police and media, for energzing public space, without political boundaries, it can ignite interest in campuses and it can lead to good governandce the heart of both ATI and ATJ programmes Fuel that energizes both economy and social conditions Has international relevance to major advocacy we are working on or propose to the modern-day slave trade, SDG 16 and how countries vote on Human rights at the UN Accessible information helped Sheeru find his family a search from Tasmania took him to a village in Eastern UP, a story that became a best seller and an award winning film, Lion There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy
