BACKGROUND Barriers to expanding access to medicines include weak pharmaceutical sector governance, lack of transparency and accountability, inadequate attention to social services on the political agenda, and financing challenges. Multi-stakeholder initiatives such as the Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) may help overcome these barriers. Between 2008 and 2015, MeTA engaged stakeholders i...

The paradigm of treating security properties on the blocklevel in sanitizable signature schemes was introduced by Brzuska et al. at EuroPKI ’12. In this paper we extend their work in two respects: First, we provide a new construction which retains transparency, a stronger privacy property. In particular, we formalize the property of block-level accountability for sanitizable signatures with tra...

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 641 I. THE FLAWED ACCOUNTABILITY AXIOM ............................................. 643 A. Accountability Deficit .................................................................. 643 B. Asymmetries in Accountability .................................................... 647 II. THE INTE...

When you browse the web, hidden “third parties” collect a large amount of data about your behavior. This data feeds algorithms to target ads to you, tailor your news recommendations, and sometimes vary prices of online products. The network of trackers comprises hundreds of entities, but consumers have little awareness of its pervasiveness and sophistication. This chapter discusses the findings...

There is a need for greater transparency and accountability in Australia's civil commitment system, which governs the involuntary detention and treatment of people with mental illness. This article explains how transparency and accountability may be addressed by Australia's mental health tribunals publishing reasons more frequently. The principles of open justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, and...

How do nature-inspired enterprises be accountable to the natural environment formed? Natural is one of basic elements business. Firms should sensitive environment, so they develop environmental transparency and accountability. This paper develops a framework understand how stakeholder governance create accountability, following an “action cycle” informed by four accountability criteria—identifi...