Road to 2030: Access to Information in the Driver’s Seat

After receiving the letter regarding the 180-day extension, the assessors contacted the information officer responsible for the file at the DFO and asked for further information regarding the reason for the delays. [...] 26 Overall Analysis In 2004, the Law on Free Access to Information of Public Importance was received enthusiastically; the hope was to break the culture of secrecy that dominated the communist and socialist systems in the country during the previous decades. [...] In the eyes of these journalists, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Justice but also Telekom Srbija are considered the most secretive and nontransparent. [...] The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education are the only public entities to have guidelines for receiving and responding to information requests; they are very brief with an example of how the request should look and with an explanation of the right to know and free access to information. [...] The extent to which ATI is enjoyed in Sierra Leone is limited due mainly to the lack of awareness by the general public of the existence of the RAI law and how to apply it.