Amending access to information legislation

"This paper is about efforts to amend the legal framework for the right to information, with a particular focus on access to information (ATI) laws. It looks at the main substantive issues such reform attempts have targeted and what legal forms they may take. It also examines the role different actors - civil society, the media, oversight bodies, parliaments, and political leaders - can play in helping support the adoption of reforms that promote openness and defeat those that erect barriers"--