日本信息公开法实施与民间主导的行政目标

日本政府信息公开比美国滞后30年以上,在国际社会中也处于一个相对滞后的水平.2001年4月1日,日本信息公开法实施,尽管从理论上确立了公众对行政事务的了解权,然而,离实现IT时代民间主导的行政目标仍有相当距离.作为原因,首先,政府缺乏一个从信息垄断中退出的公开、透明的机制;其次,信息公开法的结构失衡.非营利组织(NPO)是推进政府信息公开的重要角色之一.

Implementation of Japanese Publication of Information Act and Administrative Target under Popular Guidance

Japan has fallen behind USA in publication of government information for more than 30 years, staying at a relatively backward level in international society. Japanese Freedom of Information Act took effect on April 1,2001. Although it establishes the right of the populace to know about administrative affairs in theory, it is still far from realizing the administrative target under popular guidance in the IT era. It is because firstly, the Government lacks a public,transparent mechanism and secondly, the Freedom of Information Act is out of structural balance. The supervision of NPO will play one of the important roles ingiving impetus to the publication of government information.