Print Email Facebook Twitter Exploring the implementation blind spots Title Exploring the implementation blind spots: Selective Decoupling of Freedom of Information Author Kuk, George (Nottingham Trent University) Chim, Jimmy (Nottingham Trent University) Giamporcaro, Stephanie (Nottingham Trent University) Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Date 2017 Abstract The right to know under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act in the UK has made public authorities as the duty-bearer, often making them to selectively decouple practices from policies. This has resulted in disclosing data that may derail from the intended goals of open government. By analyzing the top fifty requesters who made 34,314 requests, we examine how the same requests can result in varying responses. Our preliminary findings suggest four implementation blind spots. The first entails data disclosure that contravene privacy and the second disclosure can potentially jeopardize the long-standing stakeholder relationship. Whereas the last two types withhold information despite it is in the public interests. The findings offer a counterintuitive insight that public authorities are willing to disclose information in support of transparency and accountability and to withhold information that is not in the public interests. We find the opposite with private pursuits superseding public interests. Subject Freedom of InformationImplementation blind spotsSelective decoupling To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:66577402-d334-4591-a671-cb2fdd5091f8 Publisher Association for Information Systems Source Proceedings of ICIS 2017: Transforming Society with Digital Innovation Event 38th International Conference on Information Systems: Transforming Society with Digital Innovation, ICIS 2017, 2017-12-10 → 2017-12-13, Seoul, Korea, Republic of Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2017 George Kuk, Jimmy Chim, Stephanie Giamporcaro, M.F.W.H.A. Janssen Files PDF 20625331.pdf 503.01 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:66577402-d334-4591-a671-cb2fdd5091f8/datastream/OBJ/view