FOI Annual Award Ceremony
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Since 2003 after the adoption of the Armenian FOI law the FOI Center jointly with its partner NGOs, has initiated an FOI Annual Award Ceremony. The following nominations are awarded annually:
- Positive Award for a state institution with the best system of providing information.
- Positive Award for a citizen who has actively exercised his/her right of access to information under FOI Law.
- Positive Award for the author of the best FOI related article/broadcast program.
- Positive Award for an NGO, which has contributed to the exercising of the rights of access to information.
- Negative award for a state institution, which does not fulfill its obligations in FOI field.
- Negative award for a state institution, which is the author of the most ridiculous official answer.
The nominees are selected by an Independent Jury represented by local and international organizations’ members, journalists, and scientists in the field. The Jury sums up the results of the monitoring conducted by the FOI Center and their own experience. Another source for unbiased decision-making is the monthly Black list of those officials and institutions which infringed people’s right to access to information (quarterly composed by the FOI Center). The Jury discusses the Black List and monitoring outcomes and makes its final decision regarding each nomination. decision regarding each nomination.
