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Access for Rights: Planned Information Request Actions
Access for Rights: Planned Information Request Actions 1 February 2011, Madrid/London: During the project on Access for Rights, Access Info Europe and Statewatch will use Europe’s access to information laws to get comparative data on civil liberties issues. The goal is to generate information that can be used in advocacy to defend democratic rights. The issues that we will be
Access for Rights: action on MDR
Action: Joint Requests on Data Retention 10 March 2011, Madrid/London: Access Info and Statewatch are inviting civil society across Europe to take part in the first joint information request campaign under the Access for Rights Project.The goal is to present the same request to governments across Europe and then compile the responses for use in human rights advocacy work.
Open Cyprus Project: Results
The Open Cyprus Project launches its Report: access to information is the exception and silence the rule in Cyprus. 24 February 2011, Nicosia/Madrid: With a level of 75% of administrative silence in response to information requests, public bodies across the island are violating the public’s fundamental right to know according to the Open Cyprus Project. The largest ever monitoring of
Open Cyprus Project: Public Consultation
Findings and recommendations for an Open Cyprus Nicosia, 15 November 2011 – A Public Consultation was held from the 24 February 2011 to 20 June 2011 for the Access Info Cyprus Project report on access to information across the island. During this period, members of the public and had the opportunity online to engage in the debate on the right
Visualizar
Looking for data and ideas for Visualizar'11 Access Info Europe is helping the information designers secure access to data that will be used as part of the “Visualizar’11” a two-week programme on data vizualization. Organised at Medialab Prado Madrid , Visualizar is a participative research and knowledge –exchange process on the theories and strategies for visualizing information. The Vizualizar project
Ten Open Data Guidelines launched in Tbilisi
Ten Open Data Guidelines launched in Tbilisi Access Info Europe welcome the publication this week of the Ten Open Data Guidelines drafted by TI Georgia, in consultation with Access Info Europe. These guidelines are designed as a guide to help agency heads, IT managers, and web developers create open data websites. The guidelines provide details of how these are to
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