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Active Dissemination
17. Under regulation 4, a Scottish public authority has a duty to take reasonable steps to organise information relevant to its functions with a view to active and systematic dissemination and to make it available progressively by electronic means which are easily accessible.
18. Consideration should be given to making web sites accessible to all and simple to use so that information can be found readily, for example, by enabling search functions and having an alphabetical directory as well as tree structures. Information should not be "buried" on a site.
19. Public authorities should consider how to publicise their duty to make information available, for example, as part of general information on services provided by the authority, or through publication schemes as described in section 23 of FOISA..
20. When public authorities are considering what information to disseminate actively, they need not restrict themselves to the minimum requirements as listed in regulation 4. For example, consideration might be given to disseminating frequently-requested information, which would reduce the number of individual requests for such information.
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