Hm.. in my experience, legal departments focus above all on managing risk on behalf of their clients and using the legal system to the maximal benefit of the organization of which they are a part. In my view, putting Transparency in Legal is a recipe for minimal disclosure, not maximal. The Transparency officer should be C level and advocate for maximal disclosure. I reckon they would often be opposed by Legal.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 March 2016 at 22:02, SarahSV sarahsv.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com
wrote:
This seems to be a recurring (and daunting) pattern. People call for transparency about a particular issue. Eventually, someone in a
leadership
position responds that yes, demands for transparency about this issue
are
quite reasonable, and in fact more transparency would be absolutely desirable.
At this point, people relax, feeling they have been heard. The
clamouring
crowd disperses. But in fact, nothing happens, and the same questions
arise
again some weeks, months, years down the line.
It would be wonderful if we had a dedicated transparency officer
within
the community engagement department. Perhaps we could open a page on meta listing transparency requests.
Why would this be within the community engagement department? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm not actually seeing any logical explanation for it being a CE issue. It seems more a legal issue (in respect of board/executive transparency) or human resources issue (in respect of NDAs). It's pretty obvious from what has bubbled to the surface over the last few months that transparency was NOT just an issue from the community perspective. Perhaps a transparency officer in Legal might make sense.
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