Freedom of Information Law and Relation with Organizational Knowledge Management

Abstract

In the realm of projects aiming at the Turkish orientation and adjustment to European Union jurisdiction, and the formation of Turkish e-government nowadays, a considerable amount of legal enactments take place in Turkey. One of those is the "law pertaining the right to be informed", which would secure the citizens’ right to gather information about public services, and would at the same time increase the management of knowledge effectiveness and productivity of government agencies. The mentioned legal regulations being also promulgated in about 50 countries, signify the rights and procedures of personal access to information according to principles of equality, independence and clarity, that would be necessitated by democratic and transparent administration. The law would thus enable the control of information being produced by government agencies, and its limitations concerning the confidentiality, trustworthiness and distributive propagation.