CLEAR hosted the Toronto Regional Seminar - Openness and Transparency in Professional Regulation: How Much Is Too Much? - earlier this month. Speakers discussed the reasons why transparency is essential for regulators, how regulators benefit from informed participants and how transparency fosters continuous improvement, criteria for making decisions on openness, legal principles about transparency, and risk management principles as related to policy and process transparency and releasing information about individual practitioners. The question and discussion segment also brought up some debate about the risks and benefits of the use of social media by regulators.
Read a summary of the seminar from Richard Steinecke's Grey Areas.
CLEAR Regional Seminars on Openness and Transparency will also be held in Raleigh on April 30 and Vancouver on May 14.
