The project ?Transparency Audit Network? ? study by FGV/EBAPE in partnership with the Center for Technology and Society of FGV's Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV DIREITO RIO) ?  was granted with financing from the Open Society Foundations (OSF), foundation created by the investor and philanthropist George Soros.  The amount will pay for all expenses regarding the research and several activities, such as a seminar scheduled for September 3 and 4, including the development of a website.Professor Robert Gregory Michener (FGV/EBAPE) is the director of the awarded project, raising information on the operation of the laws of access to public information all over Latin America by means of audit data collection. Preliminary analyses found differences in the assessment audits in each country.?We found it was impossible to compare an audit of country A to that of country B for the substantive and methodological differences. From that there was the idea of creating an international network capable of creating and applying transparent audits, the group Transparency Audit Network?, explains Gregory, who wrote the article ?Assessing Freedom of Information in Latin America Ten Years Later: How Politics Shapes Transparency? for the magazine ?Latin American Politics and Society?, based on all data obtained in this study.The Transparency Audit Network FGV has already done audit in April and May of this year. The audit ? aimed at assessing the level of fulfillment of the passive transparency obligations as per the law 12.527 ? was the biggest one ever applied in Latin America, with over 500 requests sent to public entities in eight Brazilian jurisdictions. The results of this and other assessments made during the year will be presented in the seminar planned for the second semester.Click here and learn more about OSF.