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Lemieux, Victoria L.

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Lemieux, Victoria L., Lemieux, Victoria, Lemieux, V.L., Lemieux, V.
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Transparency and information management
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University of British Columbia
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Last updated:January 31, 2023
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Dr. Victoria Lemieux is a Senior Public Sector Specialist (Transparency and Information Management) at the World Bank and an Associate Professor of Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia (on leave). She has held positions as a professional archivist, records manager and risk manager within the public and private sectors, and in higher education as an administrator and educator. She has also consulted previously for the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the World Bank. Her current research is focused on risk to the availability of trustworthy records, in particular in financial contexts, and how these risks impact upon transparency, financial stability, public accountability and human rights. She holds a doctorate from University College London (Archival Studies, 2002), which focused on the information-related causes of the Jamaican Banking Crisis and, since 2005, has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). She is the recipient of several awards and distinctions for her research and professional contributions, including a 2015 World Bank Big Data Innovation Award and the 2015 Emmett Leahy Award.
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    Public Access to Information for Development: A Guide to the Effective Implementation of Right to Information Laws
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2016-06-21) Lemieux, Victoria L.; Trapnell, Stephanie E.
    With more than 100 right to information (RTI) laws—also called freedom of information or access to information laws—now in place globally, the groundwork has been laid to advance more transparent, accountable, and inclusive governance as a pathway to poverty reduction and economic development. This guide explores the historical development of RTI laws, the factors that drive passage and effective implementation of these laws, the operation of the laws, and the impact of these laws in different country contexts and sectors, as well as the challenges of measuring the contribution of RTI laws to development outcomes. Public Access to Information for Development: A Guide to the Effective Implementation of Right to Information Laws is based on two years of research studying how RTI has been implemented in countries in different regions and with varying income levels. The research has aimed to develop a theoretical framework by which to identify the drivers of effective implementation of RTI laws and to support measurement of effective implementation; the outcomes are discussed. This guide grapples with questions such as the following: • What does it mean to have effectively implemented an RTI law? • What aspects of a law have to be operational before it can be said to have been effectively implemented? • What other factors are most critical to the effective implementation of RTI laws? • Why does effective implementation of RTI matter?
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    Right to Information: Identifying Drivers of Effectiveness in Implementation
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2014-12-01) Trapnell, Stephanie E.; Lemieux, Victoria L.
    The findings from the study suggest that international pressure for more effective Right to Information (RTI) implementation only goes so far. The development of RTI laws with the encouragement, assistance, or insistence of the international community was a prominent theme throughout the case studies, particularly for EU countries during their accession process. But implementation is a less straightforward task, with many interlocking, moving parts, and international support comes in ad hoc fashion as the process unfolds. A strong implication from these findings is that a national coordinating strategy may be valuable for implementation. This kind of strategy document should take the interdependence of the drivers of effectiveness into account when drafting policies and rules for practice, and can serve as a guiding document when deciding on foreign funding priorities.
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    One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward?: Does E-Government Make Governments in Developing Countries More Transparent and Accountable?
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2015-06) Lemieux, Victoria L.
    Many countries are in the process of transitioning from primarily paper-based administrative systems to digital systems through the application of information and communication technology (ICTs) as part of e-Government initiatives. Though much has been written about the positive power of technology and information to support greater transparency and accountability and, by extension, development, this paper discusses literature exploring the unintended consequences and downside risks for transparency and accountability associated with the way recorded information is produced and managed in digitally enabled developing country public sector contexts. The implications of these risks for implementation of right to information laws is discussed, and a call is made for further research and greater attention to the effects of ICT use in the public sector, especially in regard to digital records and information creation, use, management and preservation and effects upon the operation of transparency and accountability mechanisms.
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    One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward? Does E-Government Make Governments in Developing Countries More Transparent and Accountable?
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2016-01) Lemieux, Victoria L.
    Many countries are in the process of transitioning from primarily paper-­‐based administrative systems to digital systems through the application of information and communication technology (ICTs) as part of e-­‐Government initiatives. Though much has been written about the positive power of technology and information to support greater transparency and accountability and, by extension, development, this paper discusses literature relating to the unintended consequences and downside risks for transparency and accountability associated with the way recorded information is produced and managed in digitally enabled developing country public sector contexts. The implications of these risks for implementation of right to information laws is discussed, and a call is made for further research and greater attention to the effects of ICT use in the public sector, especially in regard to effects upon the operation of transparency and accountability mechanisms.
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    We Feel Fine: Big Data Observations of Citizen Sentiment about State Institutions and Social Inclusion
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2015-06) Lemieux, Victoria
    Motivated by the significant decline in citizen’s trust in governments over the past decades, this paper explores how policy decision makers and researchers can use social media analytics to investigate trust, specifically the relationship among trust in government, trust in state institutions, and citizens’ collective behavior. Analysis of these complex socio-political issues using online social data requires a human in the inference loop while also benefiting from computational methods to handle large amounts of unstructured data and the inference of relevant data features. To highlight the power of a mixed-initiative visual analytics-data science approach, this technical note describes the exploratory analysis work undertaken for analysis of collections of Tweets from Brazil, and describes further work that conceives data science methods to assist the analysis process by supporting definition of constructs of concepts of interest using social media data, and assisting the evaluation of evidence for hypotheses evaluation in an interactive-machine learning fashion. The outcomes of this project aim to support social sciences inquiry using observational social media data and World Bank operations.