TRANSPARENCY BY DESIGN
Objective
This Working Group should tangibly accelerate progress in concrete ways to advance the knowledge about Transparency by design with the overarching goal of increasing innovation. These efforts are intended to promote data and knowledge sharing and exchange and best practices in favor of the wellbeing of our communities.
Coordinators
Information Commissioner’s Office of the United Kingdom. 
National Secretariat of Access to Information of the Office of the Comptroller General of Brazil. 
Members
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Albania |
Information and Data Protection Commissioner |
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Bermuda |
Office of the Information Commissioner |
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Brazil |
National Secretariat of Access to Information of the Office of the Comptroller General |
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Canada |
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario |
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Mexico |
National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Personal Data Protection |
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Mexico |
Institute for Transparency, Access to Public Information and Personal Data Protection of the State of Mexico and Municipalities |
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Nepal |
National Information Commission |
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Philippines |
Freedom of Information - Project Management Office |
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South Africa |
Information Regulator |
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United Kingdom |
Information Commissioner's Office |
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United Kingdom |
Scottish Information Commissioner |
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Activities and Products
Findings Report – ICIC Transparency-by-Design Working Group
This Report presents the measures put in place by jurisdictions to effectively implement the transparency commitments featuring in legislation and aims to contribute to the development of a taxonomy of good practice to guide governments and information commissioners to adopt solutions which achieve better accountability and transparency and encourage, or allow, greater citizens’ participation in the public discourse. The findings of this Report represent a snapshot of the vast amount of information and the many initiatives and programs which ICIC members have.