White House Establishes Government Accountability and Transparency Board
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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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- How much does your university's president make?
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- Ontario must get with the times on transparency, w...
- Making the government more accountable
- Purdue's slow FOI response erodes trust - Lafayett...
- Politicians’ “fear” of freedom of information - As...
- Freedom of Information Act is vital to democracy -...
- CBC motto: Spend, don't tell
- ICO obtains promises on quicker FOI replies - The ...
- Department of Education sued by non-profit groups ...
- Top-paid civil servants lose right to wage privacy...
- Government bodies must comply with FoI terms
- Program Officer opportunity | Open Society Foundat...
- Gov’t tables Freedom of Info bill - Stabroek News
- FOIA Facts: The Most Transparent Administration in...
- Notice of AGM - Director's Meetings (teleconferenc...
- Secretary of State complains of "FOI abuse" - Dail...
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- OpenGovernment Minnesota Launches Today
- FOI workshops to combat poor awareness in region
- Slew of FOI requests 'vexatious'
- Access denied: Alberta's secrecy with public infor...
- Vancouver upholds its Freedom of Information relea...
- Nigerian FoI law best in the world – Nigeria Daily...
- FOI and travails of Nigerian journalists - thenige...
- U.S urges Government to enact FOI
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- White House Establishes Government Accountability ...
- The Sault Star Mobile - SAH welcomes FOI By FRANK...
- David Higgerson - FOI: Remembering that the FOI of...
- Iceland employs Web to write new constitution: wel...
- Vancouver Police ignore Information Commissioner's...
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- Recent NS Review Report - Freedom of Information &...
- TheSpec - Auditor general slams government over se...
- Censors must not arbitrarily black out public docu...
- The Promise and Perils of Open Government
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- David Higgerson
- Vermont Passes FOI Reforms
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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,