„Lietuvos valdžia: atvirumo link?“ 

Lietuvos valdžia: atvirumo link? = Governance in Lithuania: Towards Greater Opennes?

Questions to what extent Lithuanian government bodies are open to the citizens and to what extent they should be open are widely discussed in the public sphere of the country. The outcomes of these discussions and the results of nationwide as well as international researches show that in regard of governmental openness Lithuania could and should make certain improvements, namely, Lithuanian civil society could and should be strengthened; the empowerment of the citizens should go further. The experts of Civil Society Institute revealed that the core problems, related with the openness of Lithuanian civil society, are as follows: the gap between Lithuanian society and government, too big reticence of the government, citizens’ lack of confidence in governmental institutions’ work. After a primary survey of the websites of Lithuanian governmental institutions (the survey was carried out by Civil Society Institute) it turned out that there’s no systemic order of how decisions that are relevant to the society, should be prepared and made by the governmental institutions, that the procedures and the regulatory mechanisms of decision-making processes are not comprehensible to the society. These problems were inter alia characteristic to the decisions on public finances and the spread of related information.

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Summary in English.