TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
AIS Newsletter January 2019
AIS opposes the Anti-Defamation Legal Package: No Censorship without a Decision by the Civil CourtALSAI with an innovative tool, Data Mining software solutions useful for Transparency and Anti-Corruption Management of State-Owned Corporates during electoral periods, AIS starts monitoring this process for 2019 Elections
AIS opposes the Anti-Defamation Legal Package: No Censorship without a Decision by the Civil Court
During January, AIS publicly opposed two draft laws proposed by the Albanian Government, as part of the Anti-Defamation legal package. The amendments proposed in the Law of Audio-Visual Media and Law for Electronic Communication, foresee that the enclosure and total censorship of portals registered in the Albanian and foreign virtual space can be ordered by non-court administrative institutions. AIS has prepared a report with its objections and proposals for the anti-defamation legal package. It has also participated in several round tables organised by the Government and non-governmental institutions and joined other organisations’ standing against this package, to defend the freedom of expression and human rights.
ALSAI with an innovative tool, Data Mining software solutions useful for Transparency and Anti-Corruption
The Albanian Supreme Audit Institution (ALSAI) already disposes an innovative instrument, useful and transparent to highlight and present in a well-structured way the institution’s impact in the media and public. The data mining software solutions are considered an ICT innovation. Only in the last decade, these solutions have been applied initially by businesses, while nowdays from the Public Sector as well. ALSAI is the first Albanian institution that applies this software solution to detect, structure and catalogue media articles and technical publications related to the institutions’ results and impact. This instrument has been developed by AIS in the framework of “Transparency in Health Engagement” USAID Project. The data mining tool has been finalised in November 2018 as an instrument useful to transparency and anti-corruption.
Management of State-Owned Corporates during electoral periods, AIS starts monitoring this process for 2019 Elections
In the country, there are 220 companies owned by public institutions, municipalities or ministries. Their management and performance is of high importance, considering they are public assets, subsidized by public money and offer necessary utilities. In the 2017 elections, a considerable number of cases of electoral influence were reported involving state-owned companies’ assets. AIS has started working on the implementation of the "Monitoring Abuse of Public Funds by State-Owned Companies during Electoral Periods" project. The project consists of election oversight on monitoring abuse of state resources, and is supported by the USAID program, "Accelerated Civic Development and Cooperation". The goal of this project is to educate and empower citizens through information and transparency about state-owned companies’ potential abuse (misuse) of their money, assets and human resources during 2019 Elections.
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