quote of the day
"Bureaucrats write memoranda* both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy."
- Charles Peters
*Which are all accessible by FOI right?
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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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- MPs call for review of use of freedom of informati...
- Clark, Abbott commit to creating "open data ... - ...
- Max Pemberton: Finger on the Pulse - Daily Telegraph
- Public takes advantage of changes to open governme...
- Guest post – re-use of disclosed information — FOI...
- Special guests on agenda for last Freedom of Infor...
- Watchdog Groups Appeal State Department’s Refusal ...
- FOIFT Joins Call to White House to Re-Calibrate DO...
- FOI inspired WikiLeaks: lawyer
- CBS 60 minutes Assange overtime video : @wikileaks...
- Fellows Friday with Evgeny Morozov
- Would You Volunteer More If You Could Do So in You...
- At Sunshine Review, shedding light on government t...
- Public takes advantage of Illinois open government...
- Probe of missing records sought - NovaScotia - The...
- Nominations for FOI awards open - Tulsa World
- Door slams shut on access - Columns - Opinion - Th...
- Congressman Issa Wants to Track FOIA Requests - NY...
- Scotland's FoI to be 'strengthened' - Public Service
- timestranscript.com - Liberals call for NB Liquor ...
- Civic Engagement Tool Give a Minute Heads to New Y...
- BC Ferries Freedom of Information policy leads to ...
- TheSpec - Sunshine, please on power deal
- Transparency In The SOTU
- Avon: FOI Commission Dismisses Complaints Over Boa...
- I Like All the FOI Improvement Bills I am Seeing!
- Clark, Abbott commit to creating 'open data ... - ...
- m.guardian.co.uk : Big society plans raise concern...
- m.guardian.co.uk
- Majority of Alberta government document requests ....
- If knowledge is power, many Albertans are left pow...
- FreedomInfo | Tanzanian Official Pledges Action on...
- Five Websites that Publish Declassified Documents ...
- House panel wants Homeland Security documents on F...
- The crown gets a veil of secrecy, as new British l...
- David Higgerson: FOI: The benefits of saying a sto...
- Fayemi forwards FOI Bill to Assembly - Punch
- McNally: FOI enthusiasm or the sticky note culture...
- Corporations get personal with information request...
- White House transparency critiqued at D.C. conference
- CANOE -- Technology: Canton - E-mail access denial...
- MP slams police FOI stonewall | The Australian
- Councils find FOI a pain - but they have the cure ...
- The High Price of Transparency in India
- MnCOGI accepting nominations for 2011 John R. Finn...
- Workshop on ADB Openness Policy
- Simcoe Article: Council wants to speed up the avai...
- Open-government initiative marks two-year milestone
- Harper's democratic record wins little praise
- Transparency and the state
- Email ‘Obviously’ Violated Texas Open Meetings Law
- FYI Ottawa, FOI imperfect
- Province says tax changes paying off for Ontarians...
- FreedomInfo | FOI Notes: EU Case Summary, US FOI Day
- Mediation smoothes FOI
- Most government info requests denied
- New UK law means queen's secrets to stay that way ...
- WCB gets top marks for information - Brandon Sun
- Supreme Court to Hear Corporate Privacy Case Today
- Comments on Draft Spanish Right to Information Law...
- Campaign against narrowing of EU Access to Documen...
- Research & Statistical Officer III (Legislative Co...
- United Kingdom: ICO Publishes Freedom Of Informati...
- How are the BBC handling their FOI data...? - The ...
- Vanguard Mobile - Editors make case for passage of...
- Close Protection Forum and Surveillance Forum Mobile
- 'CLG declined FOI requests on impact of Affordable...
- Response to freedom of information requests review...
- Tell them what? - Lloyd's List
- NBN claims FOI exemption: report | News | Business...
- House panel wants Freedom of Information papers - ...
- Opposition invokes law to dig out key financial fa...
- Canada must do better on access - Hill Times
- FOI Friday: Internet News Roundup
- Argyll News: Council reveals ignorance of FoI legi...
- Free class to be offered on Freedom of Information...
- northumberlandnews.com / indynews.ca | Port Hope o...
- Five ways Ottawa stymies Access to Information req...
- telegraphjournal.com - Governments must end the cu...
- Can Access to Information be fixed? - Politics - T...
- Fear and loathing in Ottawa - Toronto Star
- BC Ferries dumps bad news on reporters late in the...
- Who makes FOI requests? - BBC
- National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame
- Icelandic politician out to push boundaries - Toro...
- Icelandic MP Says It’s Our Duty to Fight For ... -...
- The Worst Proposed FOI Exemption of 2011…Thus Far
- Cuomo must make open government a N.Y. reality - D...
- Register now for National FOI Day conference - Fir...
- Tracing Transparency
- Stelmach rebuked over Alberta government secrecy
- FYI Ottawa: FOI laws need fixing - Abbotsford News
- A Year of Open Government Data: Transparency, but ...
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- Judge says government need not disclose air travel...
- Oxford student Isabelle Fraser's weekend with Wiki...
- quote of the day
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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,