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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12 March 2016 at 22:02, SarahSV
<sarahsv.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Andreas Kolbe
<jayen466(a)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.
Risker/Anne
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