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ARROJANDO LUZ A LA FORMA EN QUE SE TOMAN LAS DECISIONES EN RESPUESTA A LA CRISIS HUMANITARIA EN EUROPA
Transparencia en los medios: quién es el dueño de la información que lees
eldiario.es | 05/03/2015 Spanish – ¿Quién está detrás de los medios de comunicación? ¿A quién pertenecen? Responder a estas preguntas no es tarea fácil. Access Info Europe, organización dedicada a promover la transparencia y el derecho a la información en la Unión Europea, lo ha intentado, pero se ha topado de frente con la opacidad que caracteriza a las grandes corporaciones mediáticas. Read
Access Info files complaint before EU Ombudsman on procurement transparency in Serbia
Madrid, 4 March 2015 - Access Info Europe has criticised the European Commission’s refusal to provide full disclosure of an evaluation document about the procurement process for a water sewage plant in Serbia, in a complaint sent today to the European Ombudsman. [1] Access Info was denied access to the names of the companies that applied for a tender contract,
Proactive Transparency Report
Public participation can change the way public policies are developed, reducing capture by special interest groups, and ensuring that decisions take into account the views and needs of affected communities. Although information alone is not sufficient—additional mechanisms are necessary for receiving input from the public, reviewing it, and providing feedback on how this input was taken into consideration—meaningful participation exercises
Reasons not to limit access to information because of age
Limiting access to information to under-16s goes against the principle of access to information as a fundamental right No one should have their right of access to information restricted due to their age according to Access Info Europe and transparency experts. This declaration follows a meeting between Access Info and authors of a draft transparency law in Catalonia, Spain, who
Why you should not need to provide personal ID in order to request access to information
The Spanish Transparency, Access to Information and Good Governance Law establishes the rules on the access to information procedures in Article 17, one of which is identifying the identity of the requester. This is not necessarily a problem, given that many access to information laws around the world also ask for such information in order to direct the response directly
Guía de acceso a los Documentos de la UE
Para celebrar el Día de Europa, Access Info publicó en 2013 una Guía para ayudar al ciudadano a acceder a los Documentos de la UE, animando a los miembros de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil y pública a ejercer sus derechos y presentar solicitudes de acceso a los documentos. La UE ha reconocido como derecho fundamental el acceso a