SRC official website in last place
President of the "Committee in Defense of Freedom of Speech" Ashot Melikyan, expert Mesrop Harutyunyan and lawyer Olga Safaryan summed up the results of the Committee's monitoring to determine the websites of ministries and government agencies that were more open and transparent in September and October 2010.
According to the final table of transparency of information on the official websites of government agencies, the official website of the State Revenue Committee was in last place with 3.20% transparency.
According to Mesrop Harutyunyan, the committee took into account 4 standards, including presence of lack of information, integrity, urgency and appropriateness. Based on the same evaluation, the official website of the SRC is followed by the websites of the RA Ministry of Justice and the RA Police.
The website of the RA Ministry of Transport and Communication is in first place with 50.48% transparency, followed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs with 44.65% and the Ministry of Education and Science with 41.67%.
The expert says the website of the National Security Service wasn't included in the table since in essence it is a closed structure and there is a lot of confidential information. The committee also didn't view the website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations since the ministry doesn't have one.
The committee also studied the transparency of information on websites of 10 regional councils. According to Mesrop Harutyunyan, the difference in ratings of websites in the provinces is not as much as that of government agencies. Based on the results, the website in Armavir province has the highest rating (29.17%), followed by Syunik (28.34%) and Tavush (26.34%).
As far as the results of the monitoring of the official websites of the President (34.44%), the National Assembly (37.80%), the Government (41.82%), the Constitutional Court (38.38%) and the Prosecutor General's Office (55.70%) are concerned, there are gaps in the sections for general information and experts say visitors don't have access to more interesting information at all.
