Safra A. Catz Quotes

Access to government-held information allows citizens to hold their government accountable for policy decisions and public expenditures…. Access to information bridges the gap between state and society ….

Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.

We believe open data helps citizens have a better understanding about Seoul's policies and motivates them to join the city government's efforts.

India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

I will run an open government that speaks with honesty, seeks opinion, listens to its citizens.

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions.

Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?

The overarching purpose of access to information legislation … is to facilitate democracy. It does so in two related ways. It helps to ensure first, that citizens have the information required to participate meaningfully in the democratic process, and secondly, that politicians and bureaucrats remain accountable to the citizenry.

We will leverage technology to collaborate with the government in its e-governance initiatives.

We are world leaders in open and transparent government.

We have to make the bureaucracy accountable to the people. It is not something esoteric, it can be done.

I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.

Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

Open government’ must not be sacrificed on the altar of bureaucratic secrecy.

… a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.

By exciting citizens about the new digital opportunity, breaking down silos of competing groups to form a truly open innovation ecosystem and shifting day-to-day resources to focus on big long-term investments for the future, countries can ensure that they break through and bridge the digital gap.

Governments don't want to be the last ones in the digital sphere if their people and businesses are already there. We have to make clear that the free movement of services in the E.U. also applies in the digital sphere. The shortcut is to create a digital union.

Ask yourself, have you ever heard any of your PAP MPs ask the hard questions? As a Singaporean, you have a right to information that the Government is refusing to answer.

Citizens need to know how their countries are being run so that they can hold governments and big business to account.

The only way we are held accountable is if people know what government is doing.

Digital society is born when your people refuse to use paper. And in our country, we know that our people refuse to use paper. If you arrive at such a point in your development, you have to make your digital state always secure.