Although the civil service has opened up the opportunity for bloggers from within its ranks to come forward, by issuing a set of guidelines for the practice, those guidelines centre on transparency and on disclosing their identity "wherever possible".
Serious enough that Mozilla has already removed the WOT browser add-on from their site saying that it violated their guidelines for transparency.
A publication by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in 2002 7 dealt thoroughly with such problems, compared national guidance in Denmark and Uganda, and also presenting a survey of international guidelines for transparency of ethical dilemmas.
This project was conducted with the approval of the James Cook University Human Ethics Committee (permit H3513) and complied with qualitative research guidelines on relevance, appropriateness, transparency and soundness of research methodology (RATS) [ 21, 22].
However, news that they have been receiving tobacco money has raised questions about whether World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines governing transparency on tobacco funding are being breached.
During the COP, I'll be supporting C2ES by tracking negotiators' progress on transparency and reporting guidelines, as well as assisting with events the think tank is hosting on the sidelines of the COP.
The authors confirm that this study adheres to the Relevance Appropriateness Transparency Soundness (RATS) guidelines on qualitative research (http://www.biomedcentral.com/authors/rats) [ 20].
The study team adhered to the Relevance Appropriateness Transparency Soundness (RATS) guidelines on qualitative research during the conduct of this study.
Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) development has evolved over the past decade, with greater emphasis now being placed on transparency, rigor of development, and reporting standards.
Rightly, the public insists on transparency.
