SECTOR 1 Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 4.0 (2012 = 3.3; 2010 = 4.2; 2007 = 3.9) 1.7 Public information is easily accessible, guaranteed by law, to all citizens. Article 41 of the Ugandan Constitution guarantees Access to Information, stating that: 1. 2. Every citizen has a right of access to information in the possession of the State or any other organ or agency of the State except where the release of the information is likely to prejudice the security or sovereignty of the State or interfere with the right to the privacy of any other person. Parliament shall make laws prescribing the classes of information referred to in clause (1) of this article and the procedure for obtaining access to that information. This right is further entrenched by the Access to Information Act of 2005, which states is purpose as being: a. b. c. 22 to promote an efficient, effective, transparent and accountable Government; to give effect to article 41 of the Constitution by providing the right to access to information held by organs of the State, other than exempt records and information; to protect persons disclosing evidence of contravention of the law, maladministration or corruption in Government bodies; AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER UGANDA 2016