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Right to Know Coalition of Nova Scotia (RTKNS) is a non-profit organization. Through advocacy and education, RTKNS encourages the use and development of freedom-of-information legislation to foster a better informed and more politically active electorate in Nova Scotia and to improve the quality of public and private decision making in the province.
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Your FOI Experience:
Have you ever filed a FOI request? What has been your experience? Has the information you sought been forthcoming, or did you find the bureaucracy working against you? How do you think the Act can further be strengthened, so that it serves its purpose better? Let Us Know!
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- Freedom of Information Week to be Held in Tbilisi ...
- Forum Secretariat | Speech by UNDP Pacific Center ...
- Pacific nations to study FOI law
- Stuart Skelly: Where to draw the line between the ...
- New Documents Released in County Commission Sunshi...
- ShowUsaBetterWay.com: What would you create with p...
- High court says Beaver Dam meetings should be publ...
- [NS] Road to democracy paved with bribery, intimid...
- Hartford Loses Appeal Of Freedom Of Information De...
- Accountability begins with open government (Colora...
- BC Information and Privacy Commissioner David Louk...
- N.B. ponders disclosing salaries at universities: ...
- Information Commissioner appeals a federal court d...
- Mayor files FOI request to get Crombie report (Osh...
- Rudd move on transparency | theage.com.au
- Freedom of Information Standards Failed by 38 States
- MPs have won their battle to keep their addresses ...
- FOI Law Illuminates University of Central Arkansas...
- A transparent government is an honest government. ...
- RTKNS AGM President's Report 2008
- Opposition against dual role of Data Protection Co...
- Study shows fewer open records requests being gran...
- NS Government Addresses Auditor General's Concerns...
- FOI Implementation after consultations demanded (P...
- UTT Students Survey FOI Compliance In East Texas
- Use FOIs to open county government (US)
- Khadr interrogation footage (in Guantanamo) puts s...
- Published on Citizens for Responsibility and Ethic...
- CREW LAWSUIT: COURT ORDERS WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF A...
- White House threatens to veto e-mail storage bill
- GAO: Federal E-Mail Preservation Spotty (US)
- The Price of Freedom (from the Avon and Somerset P...
- Freedom of Information preparations continue Publ...
- Govt clamps down on freedom of information: Trinid...
- Public servants opposed to FOI reform | The Courie...
- “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attenti...
- Scottish Government considers FOI extension to pri...
- In an article in your newspaper on October 8, 2006...
- RIGHT TO KNOW: Report: Federal agencies lagging in...
- 'Public Needs To Participate In Formation Of Freed...
- On the 25th Anniversary of the Access to Informati...
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Links
- Accountability Initiative (India)
- The Art of Access
- Centre for Law and Democracy
- Canadian Government Expenses (Bine Consulting)
- Open Parliament
- Know How They Vote (NS Legislature)
- Canadian Association of Professional Access and Privacy Administrators
- Find Your Nova Scotia MLA
- RTKNS Photo Albums
- NS Provincial Government Food Safety Reports
- NS Select Committee on Participation in the Democratic Process
- NS Democracy 250
- House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI)
- Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC)
- Independent Diplomat
- National Whistleblowers Center
- right2info.org : The Right to Information: Good Law and Practice
- National Freedom of Information Blog
- Apathy is Boring
- Empire Center for New York State Policy
- Maine Freedom of Information Coalition (MFOIC)
Fellow Bloggers
- iSolon.org
- Michael Geist
- BBC Open Secrets
- Open and Shut (Australia)
- Waye Mason - Citadel Schools
- JournaListed - Heather Brooke
- David T.S. Fraser - PrivacyLawyer
- Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
- Freedom of Information News
- Heather Brooke - Your Right to Know (UK)
- Open Secrets: A BBC blog about freedom of information by Martin Rosenbaum
"Without the FOI, the establishment would have been able to hide even more than it does now. Instead of making it harder for people to get information from public bodies on how they are run, it should be made easier."-- Norwich North UK MP Ian Gibson (Oct 2006) on raising FOI fees
If the public is "to participate more [in government] than just via the ballot box, then they need proper access to information"-- Joanne Caddy, (Nov 2001), "Why citizens are central to good governance", OECD Observer,