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The contemporary State has been transforming itself since the institutionalization of non-conventional democratic participatory mechanisms which involve complex and continuous information flows. Conscious of these transformations, the Colombian State has proclaimed the Law 1712 of 2014, concerning Transparency and the Right of Accessing to the Public National Information, which enables citizens to have complete information in regards with the States administration as well as to make petitions to the public entities through electronic means. In this way and making use of interdisciplinary collaborations betweenthe Faculty of Law and the Engineering Faculty, the informatic tool named Transparenci@ has been developed with the aim of helping in the consolidation of control mechanisms of the public administration and in the building of a critic citizenship which has enough tools for decision making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using three study cases, we will show how the private property rights interacts with space activities and it occurs in this area, separated from article 2 of the Outer Space Treaty (OST), which provides the prohibition of claims over space. The sector where the intervening subjects, kinds of property, rights and laws operate will be found in order to clarify that concept. The first case is satellite-broadcasting TV, the second one, the intellectual property rights in the International Space Station (ISS), and the third one, is the case of extraterrestrial material extraction from the Moon and Mars. We intend both to show the difference between real property rights and personal property rights at the space scope and to state questions about the dominium plenum concept, by analyzing the ius utendi or the ius fruendi, and new aspects such as the transformation of space natural resources in goods that can be subjected to appropriation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]