Government information sharing: Principles, practice, and problems — An international perspective

In an overview of information sharing environments in selected countries, this article examines the legal controls on such exchanges from an international perspective. These are important considerations in many regards. An initial theoretical analysis regards such sharing as an efficiency matter, then turns to specific settings and the conditions framing those environments. Common issues are then summarized and general principles are considered thereafter with a view to the future and what other nations might pursue in these regards.