REFUGIADOS Y MIGRACIONES
ARROJANDO LUZ A LA FORMA EN QUE SE TOMAN LAS DECISIONES EN RESPUESTA A LA CRISIS HUMANITARIA EN EUROPA
New lobby transparency civic-tech tools reveal corporate dominance of the Brussels bubble
Madrid, 25 June 2015 - The RTI community celebrated this week the launch of two groundbreaking online tools that enable citizens to monitor the interactions between high-level European Commission officials and lobbyists in the Brussels bubble: » LobbyFacts.eu, created by ALTER-EU's Corporate Europe's Observatory, Friends of the Earth Europe and LobbyControl, and relaunched last week, is a site that delivers
Victoria Anderica: «Queremos crear una ordenanza que obligue a dar la máxima información»
Eldiario.es | 26/06/2015 Español – El Ayuntamiento de Madrid, liderado por Manuela Carmena, ha nombrado a la activista Victoria Anderica directora del proyecto de transparencia, dependiente de la Concejalía de Participación Ciudadana, Transparencia y Gobierno Abierto, responsabilidad de Pablo Soto. Anderica, licenciada en Derecho y con un máster en Comunicación, Cultura y Ciudadanía Digitales, ha trabajado durante cinco años en el proyecto Access Info,
European Commission urged to act to improve transparency
Madrid, 24 June 2015 – In a letter to European Commission Vice-President Timmermans as part of an ongoing dialogue, Access Info Europe has called for action to improve EU transparency in law and in practice. The pro-transparency organisation stressed the urgent need to bring the EU’s access to documents rules into line with international standards, and raised concerns about problems
Ten Challenges for the Right to Information in the Age of Mega-Leaks
In the recently published book "The UN and Freedom of Expression and Information - Critical Perspectives", from Cambridge University Press, Access Info’s Executive Director Helen Darbishire maps the current state of the right of access to information and sets out some of the challenges currently facing the right. Darbishire notes that although the world’s first access to information law was
Transparencia y gobierno abierto: realidades y aplicación práctica
Fecha: 22-24 Junio 2015 Lugar: Península de la Magdalena, Santander
European Commission fails to prove the need for its postal addresses policy
Madrid, 19 June 2015 – Access Info Europe this week expressed concern at the European Commission’s insistence on maintaining its obstructive requirement for all documents requesters to provide their postal addresses, after the Commission admitted in response to parliamentary questions that the policy is based on just one case of “abuse” over the past 14 years. Answering a parliamentary question