Obama on Restoring Public Trust
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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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- Obama Memo on the Freedom of Information Act
- Open Letter by Members of Global Openness Communit...
- Canada's cult of secrecy
- Canada: Privacy Commissioner Orders Release of Cam...
- Shine light on wheels of power
- Bill Gives People The Right To Know (Moscow Times)
- Obama Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government
- Details of MPs' expenses could still be exempted f...
- Canadian PM urged to loosen info secrecy
- Opening government on Day One
- Obama issues orders and memoranda on ethics, trans...
- [foianet]Pending the Russian FOI Law in 2009
- Obama on Restoring Public Trust
- Governments in Canada playing games with public’s ...
- From foinet UK: Campaign welcomes decision to shel...
- UK's Brown backs down in MPs expenses row: transpa...
- Protests grow over MP expense bid (UK)
- FoI campaigners condemn MPs bid to hide expenses
- Secrecy Breeds Distrust
- Ontario Court of Appeals orders access to police r...
- Newspaper association audit of information laws sh...
- NS Nursing home staff abused residents 30 times, l...
- Names, titles and base salaries of 427,759 New Yor...
- South West Shore Development Authority's Expense r...
- NDP calls for SWSDA audit... $1 million-plus unacc...
- Hoping for the best with FOI (Cayman Islands)
- NS Premier gave staff raises
- Freedom of Information Law set (Cayman Islands)
- What a title to start the new year: Dead rats, coc...
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- 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,