Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts

Monday, August 30, 2010

Scotland's LibDems FOI Request Shows Massive Data Losses Across Government

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"A Freedom of Information petition by the Liberal Democrats has revealed massive data losses in government organisations across the UK and Scotland. ...
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Monday, March 09, 2009

Information chief plans to target Scots public bodies

Information chief plans to target Scots public bodies

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Kevin Dunion is busy trying to put himself out of a job. The Scottish Information Commissioner is persuading public bodies to sign up to "model publication schemes" like the one entered into by police forces.

He will then embark on a series of rolling audits of public bodies to encourage the spread of best practice, so that in theory Scotland will become such a haven of openness and accountability that one day all public information will be so freely available that no-one will have to appeal to the commissioner.

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