Access to political power

As the offshore findings of The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) have shown, information technology has a major impact on political transparency. Access to information is now much easier and government leaders know that it has become much more difficult to hide corrupt practices away from the citizens. But that is not enough. It is time to transform the access to information into access to political power and be able to ensure renewal at the level of the political elites. Democracy is also about opening the leading circle to new entrants.