Mixed traditions: Evaluating telecommunications transparency

Ben Ballard and Christopher Parsons

Internet Policy Review: Journal on Internet Regulation, 2021, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-30

Abstract: This article draws upon academic and civil society literatures to create a framework for assessing the effectiveness of telecommunications transparency reports on government requests for information within Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our analysis suggests that effective reports are targeted, in that they embody both verifiable and performative approaches to transparency, and also are sustainable, insofar as they evolve in their scope and structure while remaining regularly published. Emergent from this evaluation, we can better explain why different companies, in different jurisdictions, demonstrate variation in their adoption of effective transparency reporting practices over the last decade.

Keywords: Standards; Transparency; Telecommunication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.14763/2022.1.1613

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