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The Honest Ads Act (S. 1989, H.R. 4077) was a bill in the United States Senate intended to regulate online campaign advertisements by companies. The bill was proposed on October 19, 2017, as a response to Facebook's disclosure of Russia purchasing political ads during the 2016 United States presidential election . [ 1 ]
The bill would require the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board to establish a pilot program relating to reporting by recipients of federal funds to increase financial transparency to: (1) display the full cycle of federal funds, (2) improve the accuracy of federal financial data, and (3) develop recommendations for reducing reporting ...
apply approaches developed by the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board to spending across the federal government. Section 3 of the bill amended the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to define " federal agency ," for the bill's purposes, to mean an executive department, a government corporation, or an ...
OpenTheBooks.com is an American nonprofit organization based in the Chicago suburb of Burr Ridge, Illinois.It describes itself as a transparency group devoted to posting online all the disclosed spending of every level of government across the United States. [1]
The concept of open government is broad in scope but is most often connected to ideas of government transparency, participation and accountability. Transparency is defined as the visibility and inferability of information, [4] accountability as answerability and enforceability, [5] and participation is often graded along the "ladder of citizen ...
Media transparency, also referred to as transparent media or media opacity, [1] is a concept that explores how and why information subsidies are being produced, distributed and handled by media professionals, including journalists, editors, public relations practitioners, government officials, public affairs specialists, and spokespeople. In ...
Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 as enacted in the US Statutes at Large; S.2590 on Congress.gov; WashingtonWatch.com – P.L. 109–282, The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine information on the bill, including estimated cost per person
Based on a long-standing research program of the World Bank, the Worldwide Governance Indicators capture six key dimensions of governance (Voice & Accountability, Political Stability and Lack of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption) between 1996 and present.