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IS TRANSPARENCY A LUXURY ITEM?

Explore the delicate balance between transparency, security threats, climate change, and economic crisis in public interest concerns, examining how secrecy and open communication compete in a world of complex issues.

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IS TRANSPARENCY A LUXURY ITEM?

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  1. IS TRANSPARENCY ALUXURY ITEM? • SECURITY THREATS Prof Al Roberts • CLIMATE CHANGE Joseph Foti, WRI • GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS Sean Moulton, OMB Watch • RESPONDENT Tom Susman, ABA

  2. Transparency may be ‘delivering’, but won’t it sometimes ‘get in the way’?

  3. SECURITY THREATS, CLIMATE CHANGE & ECONOMIC CRISIS…Competing Public Interest Concerns • ‘Higher Public Interest Concerns’: safety; global warming; economic growth/jobs… • Secrecy ‘Trumps’ Transparency… • Public demand for transparency is less • If they are determined to keep it secret they will anyway… • All highly technical anyway…no point, and no need to know

  4. ISSUES: • Openness in the ‘wrong’ places may undermine the ‘cause’ of transparency • Some ‘Strategic’ Secrecy is necessary to win the overall war for openness? • Higher Test to satisfy…. • Avoid glib arguments; need to be specific about the competing public interest concerns

  5. TEST • To see if we can make the case for transparency even in most demanding of cases/policy areas • If we can’t win the argument here, not much point winning it elsewhere • Equally: proponents of secrecy, must be specific about why transparency is counter-productive or has unintended consequences

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