On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Venkat Mangudi <[email protected]>wrote:
> Badri Natarajan wrote: > > > Take it from me that it is not easy and is a vast amount of work - the > > simplest and easiest sounding questions can be incredibly hard (and time > > consuming) to answer. > > > > If it is hard and time consuming, does it mean that we (or our elected > representatives) agreed to implement an act without actually thinking > through the ramifications? Sounds very familiar though. > RTI was approved by the National Advisory Council composed of Aruna Roy, Jean Dreze, and others and was presided over by Sonia Gandhi. I will trace the history of RTI and put it together in another post in a fortnight's time - this is part of some of the research I am doing on transparency, internet and politics. One of the issues with law and policy is that these are often framed with normative considerations and viewpoints and they tend to be standardizing. Implementation of policies and laws is convoluted process because the intended standardization is confronted with the differences existing on the ground level as well as contests over access to resources. Therefore, we have to see issues of politicss, corruption, democracy and the works in terms of their everyday applications. -- Zainab Bawa Ph.D. Student and Independent Researcher Gaining Ground ... http://zainab.freecrow.org http://cis-india.org/research/cis-raw/histories-of-the-internet/transparency-and-politics
