Posts Tagged ‘case study’
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13 April 2012
FOI NOTES: MENA, Canada, Open Data, US, UK
MENA: A new newsletter has been started to follow access to information developments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Said Almadhoun, now a human rights officer at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human…
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12 March 2012
Reports Critically Assess RTI Performance in Indonesia
Two years after implementation of the Indonesian right to information law, several new reports look closely at how exemptions in the law are being handled and how three agencies are implementing the law.
Government officials are still taking the same… -
3 February 2012
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… -
3 February 2012
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… -
17 November 2011
Half of FOI Laws Not Working, AP Concludes
“More than half the countries with right-to-know laws do not follow them,” the Associated Press concluded after conducting an international test of access laws.
AP reporters submitted questions in January “about terrorism arrests and convictions, vetted by experts, to the… -
14 October 2011
Chinese Agencies Rank Poorly in Annual Transparency Study
Thirty-five out of China’s 43 federal departments get failing grades on transparency, according to the 2010 China Administrative Transparency Report by the OGI Watch Alliance Project.
“The institution that did the worst was the Ministry of Supervision, the very ministry… -
4 October 2011
Few Requests for Information Answered, Global Study Says
Only one out of four requests for budget information made in 80 countries were fully answered, according to a study released Oct. 4.
The monitoring effort was done by the Ask Your Government! 6 Question Campaign.
480 requests for budget… -
27 September 2011
Provincial Variation Apparent in Canadian FOIA Audit
Response time to freedom of information varies among the Canadian provinces, according to the latest version of The National Freedom of Information Audit, sponsored by Newspapers Canada.
Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Yukon were the fastest responders, while British… -
25 August 2011
FOI Notes: Africa, UNESCO, United States, United Kingdom
West Africa: The Africa Freedom of Information Centre has issued a study on access to information in Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria. Follow this link, and got to bottom of listings.
UNESCO: The online report on the 2010 UNESCO World Press Freedom… -
24 June 2011
Report Analyzes Access in 7 Latin American Countries
An extensive new report examines access to information policies and practices in seven Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay.
The report is titled “?Venciendo la Cultura del Secreto. Obstáculos a la implementación de políticas y… -
24 June 2011
Detailed 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 study, the results of which have just been released.
It was conducted… -
27 May 2011
Regional Russian Websites Found Lacking in IIFD Report
The Institute for Information Freedom Development has issued a report on the official websites of 83 executive government bodies of the Russian Federation.
The monitoring results showed that Russian regional governments provided only 38% of the information on their activities… -
8 April 2011
Environmentalists Begin Effort to Seek Information in Africa
A U.S. environmental group and partners in Africa have begun an effort to request environmental-related information from the governments of Ghana, Uganda and South Africa, and hope to find new strategies to promote freedom of information reform.
The project was… -
24 December 2010
FOI NOTES: Studies, Reports, Resources
Arab Countries: A study by two University of Arizona journalism professors indicates that Arab countries are not quite ready to embrace government transparency, according to a study published in the recent issue of Government Information Quarterly. Jeannine Relly and David…
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13 January 2010
India’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 government-held information to 1.2 billion citizens, most… -
7 October 2009
Saber Mas: New Report on Access to Information in Latin America
Open government advocates offer first-hand accounts of FOI promotion in Latin America
Latin America’s leading open government advocates recently released a report, bringing together data from 17 countries and offering new findings on the status of freedom of information in… -
17 July 2009
Safeguarding the Right to Information: Report of the People’s RTI Assessment 2008 in India
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 information were made in urban areas, while an additional 400,000… -
14 April 2009
World Bank Releases Extremely Useful Reports on Access to Information Implementation
Over the past few months, the World Bank has recently published a series of extremely useful reports by experts on access to information laws. Using comparative case studies, together these reports provide an overview of the whole life cycle of access to information (ATI) legislation, from adoption to implementation and enforcement. One report examines the role of civil society groups in the formulation and adoption of access to information laws in Bulgaria, India, Mexico, South Africa and the United Kingdom. Another examines the institutional and logistical nuts-and-bolts of implementation, using Mexico as a case study, while the third report looks at models of enforcement in several countries: South Africa, Mexico, Scotland, India, and Hungary.
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27 June 2006
Two Steps Forward, One Step Backwards: The Access to Information Campaign in Argentina
By Martha Farmelo and Mariela Belski
Martha Farmelo is Coordinator of the Freedom of Expression Program and Mariela Belski Coordinator of the Access to Public Information Program at the Buenos Aires-based Association for Civil Rights (www.adc.org.ar)Which is preferable, a…
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22 March 2006
Freedom of Information Laws Added to the Development Agenda
By Toby McIntosh
Riding a wave of transparency, the idea of encouraging Freedom of Information (FOI) laws as part of the development agenda is gaining currency, but slowly.
With research and case studies increasingly identifying transparency as a key tool…