Transparency in any public dealings entails two major aspects of governance.
First and the most crucial aspect of transparency is the reliable access of information by the citizens.
This goes hand in hand with the second aspect, the facilitation of the citizens' understanding of the government decision making processes.
A transparent government will endeavor to ensure to its citizens:

• Freedom of information
• Fair and just administrative procedures
• Televised parliamentary debates
• Published government audit reports
• Advertised government positions
• And many more

In any world economy, either developed or developing, the government transparency is a key step to achieving a better and satisfactory economic performance and governance in the long term.
The government transparency is generally defined by three key factors namely openness, accountability and honesty.
In a free society, transparency is usually the government's first obligations.
The government should openly share all information willingly with its citizens.
Government transparency is the heart of how a country's citizens hold their public officials accountable for any public dealings.
The main and the most important role of a country's government is to serve its citizens with due accountability in a more humble and responsible manner.
Information on utmost all government dealings with the public businesses should be transparent at all times irrespective of the persons involved.
The citizens should be able to access easily and likewise easily understand how the government officials spend the taxpayers' money and utilize other various country resources trusted with them.
The people heavily rely on the government institutions to effectively work on their behalf with utmost good faith and openness at all circumstances.
The institutions are expected to provide an oversight role on matters that affect their citizens' life significantly.
The government can fulfill this important role only when it engages in open and transparent activities with its citizens and other stakeholders.
Citizens do work to ensure a wise, equitable and transparent use of power and public fund by engaging in the governance issues that do adequately affect them.
Traditionally, government transparency is divided into three different types, the proactive disclosure, requesting public records and lastly campaign finance disclosure.
The proactive disclosure requires that the government regularly and openly publish its own data.
This is a revelation of the information that may be damaging to the government that reveals it.
The government is encouraged through proactive disclosure to regularly publish its information to the public.
It is a rare practice amongst most government but it will promote public confident in their government.
Under requesting public records approach, the citizens will seek for the information from the government themselves.
Citizens are encouraged to regularly visit the government offices in order to collect any information on the government dealings they desire.
Likewise these information can be collected from other trusted sources not necessarily the government like media, research firms and other more.
In the past few years, transparency has been noticeably improving.
This trend is backed by several reforms taking place in various governments globally.
Several agencies, corporations and other political activists have been disbursing free information about the government dealings in a move to create transparency to all stakeholders.
Achieving satisfactory government transparency has been experiencing setbacks due to some impediments.
These impediments should be avoided in order to achieve a sustained success.
The major impediments to government transparency include:

• Discretion without accountability
• Excessive rules
• Lack of timely, publicized information
• Lack of resources to publish information
• Information not accessible to disadvantaged
• Lack of service culture in government