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Right to information (RTI) constitutes a paramount pillar and an imperative requirement for human development considering the emergence of knowledge societies, where more and more information is being produced, particularly by public bodies. Indeed, while exercising their activities, different branches of the governmental produce, receive and hold Public Sector Information and Data (PSID). Therefore, put at the heart of RTI, PSID disclosure and dissemination, is a real catalyst for good governance practices implementation, but also a prerequisite to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The 2022 UNESCO guidelines can be used as a framework of principles, strategic and regulatory approaches, and models, by policymakers and officials, interested in the institutionalization, the implementation and the assessment of PSID access process within the public bod-ies. They also expose discussions on central issues as RTI, privacy, proactive disclosure, and integration of FAIR data principles in PSID release. Such topics may certainly be of value for civil society, inter-national organizations, academics, and professionals, attentive to the ways PSID access can reinforce transparency, impact public service delivery, and more generally be beneficial to the society.

The Guidelines focus on components necessary to any normative framework for a broader, trust-worthy and inclusive disclosure, namely its constitutional basis, strategic levers, legal Foundations, and structures to support PSID requests and appeals. A set of recommendations is proposed at the end of these guidelines.