Newsletter -February 2011
National Transparency Week
The Department of International
Law participated in the seventh annual National
Transparency Week, organized by the Federal
Institute of Access to Public Information (IFAI)
of Mexico, which took place August 25-27, 2010. This
edition of the annual even focused on the effect of
transparency of effective government administration
and the sharing of best practices in the hemisphere
to help guarantee the right of access to
information. The DIL, which shared the work panels
with national and international authorities on
access to information, including the president of
the Mexican Supreme Court (Guillermo Ortiz
Mayagoitia), the president of the Senate (Carlos
Navarrete), the Secretary of Public Function
(Salvador Vega Casillas), the Commissioners and
Staff of the IFAI, and the Secretary General of the
Organization fro Economic Cooperation and
Development, presented the work of the OAS on access
to information, including the recently adopted Model
Inter-American Law on Access to Information and its
Implementation Guide, the sharing of knowledge and
experiences on indicators for government
effectiveness and transparency, on the interrelation
of budgetary matters and open government, and in the
modernization of public administration.
Mexico, working through IFAI,
played a pivotal role in the preparation and
approval of the
Model Inter-American Law on Access to Public
Information and the Guide for its Implementation,
contained in resolution
AG/RES. 2607 approved by the OAS General
Assembly on June 8, 2010. Two months after its
adoption, the National Transparency Week
acknowledged Mexico's participation in this process
and gave the IFAI and OAS an opportunity to
highlight the achievements reached in this
collaboration, of disseminating the participative
methodology that resulted in the text of the Model
Law (which included the participation of the organs,
organizations, and entities of the inter-American
system, the member states, and members of civil
society), of explaining the Model Laws substantive
content, which consolidates the international and
inter-American standards in this field, in addition
to proposing strategies for its implementation
within the legal frameworks of OAS Member.
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