GUIDELINES FOR DISCLOSURE PUBLICATIONS OF PROACTIVE DISCLOSURE UNDER SECTION 4 OF PRESENTATION

RTI activists, volunteers and the Resource persons taking cognisance of the transparency and accountable in government function and working of every public authority to contain corruption and also to hold the government and their instrumentalities accountable to the governed must have appropriate vision of public domain and in revelation to the required information likely to conflict the public interest including efficient operation of the preservation of confidentiality of the sensitive information, accessible under the Act, lying under the control of the public authority , however processed for the information under law code manual by Applicants, where law and rules are also explained and presented before the public authority for obtaining information, if denied by the public information officer, while taking cognisance of the disclosure of such information. As such information and data should be presented to open data formats, whereby it can be pulled by different Application, protocol Interfaces to be used in different specific contexts and needs. Information/data can, for instance be presented in powerful visual ways using visualisation techniques. Such visual representation of information/data can give insights that may remain largely hidden in a textual or tabular presentation of data. In some contexts, pictures and audio /video recordings etc, may be more useful. There have been moves in the present system of transparency to follow video recordings of the Gram Sabha meetings and events and a picture of the NREGA worksite, for instance may tell much more than words can. As such all such different media and forms should be used for proactive disclosure of the required information in the interest of transparency and accountability.