A Citizen's Guide to Public Accountability, by Henry McCandless

PLEASE NOTE: The Citizens’ Circle for Accountability has launched two new websites. The first is the Centre for Public Accountability (www.centreforpublicaccountability.org), which contains accountability standards, definitions, steps in holding to account, and the Journal of Public Accountability. The Centre is intended as a primer and resource on public accountability for citizens and activist citizens concerned with how specific authorities are carrying out their responsibilities. But it is also for civil servants, legislators, academics and students concerned with government operations.

The second site, a blog, is called Forging Civic Trust (www.forgingcivictrust.org). Its purpose is to be a resource for all those wishing to bring about public accountability to a standard of public explanation from authorities that citizens are entitled to see met. The blog is also intended to be useful to the public accounting of civil servants, elected representatives and corporate officials who claim for their intentions that they default to the public good. The blog will also be useful to the media in interviewing officials and commenting on officials’ statements.

As a result, content on this site is no longer being updated. All content (and much more) is now available on the new sites. Content left here is intended as a placeholder until the search engines have found all content and ranked pages accordingly.

Please update your links and bookmarks.

CCA Convenors

For various types of responsibilities the Circle has convenors to offer accountability advice, on request through the Circle’s email. The initial group is:

General - Henry E. McCandless, MBA, CA
henrymccandless@accountabilitycircle.org

Food and drug safety issues - Dr. Michèle Brill-Edwards, MD, FRCP
michelebrill-edwards@accountabilitycircle.org

Information management issues - Cornelius F. (Neil) Burk, PhD,
neilburk@accountabilitycircle.org

Legal justice issues - George F. Windsor, B.Eng (elect.), LL.B.,
Barrister and Solicitor
georgewindsor@accountabilitycircle.org

Social movements on the net and community online - Garth Graham
garthgraham@accountabilitycircle.org

Public sector project management issues - Richard A. Mandy, PMP, MSMP
rickmandy@accountabilitycircle.org