Exploring the Relationships between Freedom of Information and Institutional Information Management in the Chinese Government: An Empirical Study

摘要

The Regulation on Opening Government Information of the People's Republic of China - the Chinese version of Freedom of Information (FOI) law in other contexts - was issued by the State Council in 2007 and took effect the following year. Similar to other FOI laws, the regulation stipulates two approaches for disclosing information and they are proactive disclosure and disclosure-by-request (DbR). This research aimed at exploring the relationships between DbR and institutional information management in China. Twenty-five institutions of the State Council were decided to be data sources, from which data were collected by browsing websites and sending information requests. This presentation reports on the findings of the study and the future work that should follow up on the study.