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3 February 2012
Bahamas Set to Debate Freedom of Information Bill
By Larry Smith
Smith is an independent columnist whose work appears in The Tribune. Reprinted by permission.
Last October the government tabled an historic Freedom of Information Bill in Parliament - fulfilling a key election pledge. This law is expected to be… -
FOI Training for Government Officials: Main Trends
By Natalia Torres
Torres is Senior Researcher for the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) in Argentina. See this article in Spanish.
CELE has just released a brief note on access to information training… -
Acceso a la información: principales tendencias en la capacitación de funcionarios
Por Natalia Torres
Investigadora Principal del CELE
El CELE acaba de publicar una breve documento sobre capacitación de funcionarios en acceso a la información pública. El documento, elaborado por Natalia Torres y Luis Esquivel, describe las diferentes estrategias utilizadas por… -
30 January 2012
Campaign Under Way for Germany to Join Open Government Partnership
By Sebastian Haselbeck
Haselbeck is community manager of the Internet & Society Co:llaboratory.
When eight countries committed to launching the Open Government Partnership in the fall of 2011, chaired by the governments of the United States and Brazil, hopes were… -
Under Obama, FOIA Is Still in Shackles
By Trevor Timm
Timm is an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who specializes in free speech issues and government transparency. He also curates the Twitter account @WLLegal that reports on legal news surrounding WikiLeaks, the right to publish classified…