From Science Daily

Journalists are often assumed to be the biggest utilizers of freedom-of-information legislation, but new research found that collaborations between journalists, social activists and civil-society organizations were essential to the success of creating a right-to-information agenda in India.

By studying the social response to India’s Right to Information Act, a University of Arizona researcher has uncovered how the world’s largest democracy created a culture that demands government transparency and what the rest of the world can learn from it.

More than half the countries in the world have freedom-of-information legislation, and Jeannine Relly, an associate professor in the UA School of Journalism, studies the influence of those laws on democratic governance. In 2016, she received a Fulbright fellowship to spend four months in India studying the social movement surrounding India’s Right to Information Act, or RTIA

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