TABLE OF CONTENTS
Overview of the 1999 Civil Service Forum
Michael Kelly ...............................................................................................5
Opening Speeches
Isahel Corte-Real .......................................................................................... 8 Berend-JanvanVoorsttotVoorst............................................................12 Martin Potucek.........................................................................................17
Presentations
Accountability and Public Administration: Concepts, Dimension, Developments
Antonio Bar Cendan ...............................................................................22
Transparency and Openness of Quality Democracy
Yehezkel Dror........................................................................................... 62
Constitutional Safeguards of Legality and Legitimacy
Evgeni Tanchev ........................................................................................72
The Special Challenges Facing Governance in Transition Countries
Imre Forgdcs ..........................................................................................100
WORKSHOP I - Governnment I Citizen Relationship
Effective Approaches to Reform of the Government/Citizen Relationship
Mirko Vintar .......................................................................................... 110
Openness and Transparency in Designing the Public Administration Reform in the Czech Republic
Jifi Marek ...............................................................................................123
Relationship between Administration and Public
Armands Kalnins ...................................................................................128
Government/Citizen Relationship in the Ukraine
Juri Polianski .........................................................................................134
Freedom of Information in Hungary
Ldszla Majtenyi ......................................................................................145
The Role of Government Information Offices
Bart W. Edes ..........................................................................................151
Transparency and Openness in governance: Challenges and
opportunities
Emilia Sicdkovd .....................................................................................169
Synthesis and Conclusions
Julia Szalai ............................................................................................180
WORKSHOP II - Impact of Openness on Administration Strengthening Government-Citizen Connections:
Open Government in OECD countries
Daniel Blume .........................................................................................186
Impact of Openness on Administration: Perspective from Estonia
Ivar Tallo ................................................................................................193
Creating the Systemic Foundations for Openness and Transparency in Public Administration
Jazef Ploskonka ...................................................................................... 199
Transparency and Freedom of Access to Public Documents in Finland
Anna-Riitta Wallin, Yrj6 Venna ............................................................202
The EU experience: Taking the EU closer to the Citizens
Mary E. Preston ......................................................................................206
Experience with Citizen's Charters in the UK
Geoffrey Sadler .......................................................................................214
United Nations Division for Public Economics and Public Administration: Some Recent Developments
Demetrios Argyriades .............................................................................217
Training Programme for Estonian Public Information Officers
Yrj6 Venna .............................................................................................221
Synthesis and Conclusions
Martin Potucek .......................................................................................226
ANNEX I - Programme of the Meeting ................................................... 229
Jane Finlay, Marek Debicki
Date: 2003
Allan Rosenbaum, Ľudmila Gajdošova
Date: 2003
Glen Wright
Date: 2001
Michael Kelly
Date: 1999
Joanne Caddy, Jak Jabes
Date: 1999
Jak Jabes
Date: 1998
Jak Jabes
Date: 1998