Safeguarding the Right to Information: Report of the People’s RTI Assessment...
A Comprehensive Look at the Implementation and Use of India’s RTI Act New Delhi, India — In the first two years of access-to-information implementation in India, about 1.6 million requests for...
View ArticleThe World Prepares for International Right To Know Day, 28 September 2009
The 7th International Right to Know Day on 28th of September 2009 will mark a year of historic advances for the right of access to information and will be celebrated by the Freedom of Information...
View ArticleJustice Minister Rejects Much-Needed Reforms to Canada’s 26-Year-Old...
Recommendations Called for Broad Expansion of Information Commissioner’s Mandate Ottawa, Canada — In June 2009, the House of Commons Committee on access to information, privacy, and ethics made...
View ArticleNew Report on Aid Transparency: Not Available! Not Accessible!
Madrid, Spain — Transparency NGO Access Info Europe released a report on October 20 entitled “Not Available! Not Accessible!” to coincide with the opening of the International Aid Transparency...
View ArticleAccess Info Unveils Question to Brussels Report on Requesting EU Information
Brussels, Belgium — In April 2009, an internal guide from the EU Directorate General (DG) for Trade revealed that public officials were being given tips on how not to record information and how to...
View ArticleWorld Bank Cautious on Media Development
The goal of strengthening the media as one way to fight corruption was adopted by the World Bank in 2006, but the promise has gone virtually unfulfilled, according to research by freedominfo.org.
View ArticleIndia’s Right to Information Act: The First Four Years
By Alasdair Roberts India’s Right to Information Act (RTIA) went into force in October 2005. It is probably the most ambitious experiment with transparency in the world. The law promises a right to...
View ArticleCarter Center Releases African Regional Plan of Action to Advance the Right...
Participants from the African Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information have released the Regional Findings and Plan of Action to advance the right of access to information in Africa....
View ArticleHong Kong’s Code on Access to Information Turns 15 Years Old: Can the Right...
By Chan Pui-king Since March 1995, the right to know in Hong Kong has been codified in the Code on Access to Information, an administrative measure (without the force of law) that requires all...
View ArticleNotable Canadian News Stories Based on ATIA requests
By Stanley Tromp The value of a strong Access to Information Act is better demonstrated than just asserted. To counter negative claims made by bureaucrats and politicians about FOI law usage, here are...
View ArticleFOIA Notes: A Bibliography, Snapshot of World FOIA
A new bibliography of academic resources on FOI law has just been released on FOIAnet. It was compiled by Ben Worthy, Research Associate, Constitution Unit, Department of Political Science, University...
View ArticleFOI Notes: Blair on FOI, World Bank on Land
Blair’s Actions on FOI Exposed: An article by Maurice Frankel, published by the Campaign for Freedom of Information, discusses former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s obstruction of freedom of...
View ArticleDetailed Reports Finds Weakneses in AfDB Policy
Obtaining information from the African Development Bank can be frustrating, according to researchers who visited the Bank’s website and went to Bank local offices. Their experiences informed a detailed...
View ArticleAlianza Regional Presents FOIA Report to Commission
The Alliance for Freedom of Expression and Information Oct. 24 in Washington urged the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights to pay more attention to access to information. A delegation...
View ArticleReports Show Uses of Access Laws for LGBTI Community
The South African History Archive has prepared reports to raise awareness about the right to information within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) sector in Africa. The...
View ArticleDisclosure of Land Deals Recommended in Report
All contractual information about land deals should be publicly available unless investors or governments can prove that this would harm commercial competitiveness or public interest, according to a...
View ArticleFOI Notes: UNESCO, Fiscal Transparency
Open Access: UNESCO has published “Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access” which is largely about open access to scientific information and is designed “to promote Open...
View ArticleReport Addresses Access, Public Safety in Chile
Pro Acceso Foundation and Paz Ciudadana Foundation have published a report (in Spanish) called “Access to Public Information and Public Safety in Chile.” The paper argues that access to public...
View ArticleReports Examine Access Issues in Chilean Cities
Two reports have been prepared addressing transparency in Chilean cities. A report entitled “Challenge of Transparency in Municipalities,” prepared by the lawyer Daniela Cañas, provides a...
View ArticleFOI Notes: Video, Research, UK Guides, Books
Video: See a presentation by Associated Press investigative journalist Martha Mendoza on the importance of government transparency. “Drawing on her own experience employing the U.S.’s FOIA, and...
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