Posts Tagged ‘rti campaigns’
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14 May 2012
Folk Songs Explain the RTI Law in Bangladesh
Sung to the tunes of traditional folk songs, new lyrics are being used to explain the right to information law in Bangladesh.
Days of secrecy are long gone,
Public officials are now under obligation,
To ensure people’s right to information,… -
8 April 2011
Canadian Political Parties Criticized for Silence on FOI
Three Canadian groups have asked the political parties to say what they will do to fix an access to information system that the groups say is “in chaos.”
“In the campaign so far, politicians have used words like open government,… -
22 September 2010
Paraguayan NGOs Launch Campaign to Pass FOI Law
Leaders of nongovernment organizations in Paraguay have begun talking with congressional leaders about passing a freedom of information law.
The groups have developed a draft law (in Spanish).
“We are trying to get a broad consensus on the importance… -
9 September 2010
Legal Impediments Seen to Accessing Government Data
Legal challenges face the burgeoning efforts to make government data more available, according to a draft report by Access Info Europe and the Open Knowledge Foundation.
The 97-page report comprehensively surveys the accelerating “open data” movement and describes related weaknesses… -
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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14 October 2003
The Freedom of Information Campaign in Argentina
[See also "The Transparency Labyrinth in Argentina" by María Baron, 13 APRIL 2004]
Buenos Aires-based journalist Martha Farmelo reports for freedominfo.org on Argentina’s current campaign for a freedom of information law, which was passed in May 2003 by the lower… -
8 September 2003
The Birth of the Freedom of Information Act in Japan: Kanagawa 1982
Lawrence Repeta of the Information Clearinghouse Japan board of directors reports on the 20-year experience with freedom of information in Kanagawa prefecture — the most influential early Japanese access law, passed in 1982, two decades before the national FOI law.…
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27 July 2002
Japan – Breaking Down the Walls of Secrecy: The Story of the Citizen’s Movement for an Information Disclosure Law
By Information Clearinghouse Japan
A new national disclosure law took effect in Japan in April 2001. This essay by Information Clearinghouse Japan shows how citizen’s groups, opposition parties and freedom of information advocates had lobbied for such an act for 20…