Access Info Europe and the Open Data Charter co-hosted a RightsCon panel where they spoke with data and privacy experts on the importance of making data open during the Covid-19 pandemic, while ensuring both the public’s safety and the privacy of the individual.
Date: 02/09/2020 Access Info and other specialists explain how to request information from public bodies and how to appeal in cases of total or partial rejection or refusal of the request, both to the Spanish Transparency Council and before the courts. Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info Europ, presented this workshop which also featured the following speakers: Miguel Ángel Blanes, Lawyer. PhD in Law. Public Official. Expert on transparency, access to public information and open governmento; Joaquín Meseguer, Director General for Transparency and Good Governance. Regional Government of Castilla y León; Jesús Escudero, data journalist. Member of the International
Date: 01/09/2020 On 1 September 2020, the yearly ‘NGO briefing’ took place on the margins of the 11th reconvened session of the UNCAC Implementation Review Group meeting (IRG) at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna. It had been postponed from its original date in June due to the evolving COVID-19 situation and was conducted in a hybrid format with around 20 in-person and roughly 70 remote participants from 40 CSOs and 15 States Parties. The briefing, organized by the Secretariat of the UNCAC Conference of the States Parties (CoSP) in collaboration with the UNCAC Coalition, is
Newtral | 29/08/2020 In Spanish- Varias organizaciones han llevado ante el TS el uso que hizo el Gobierno del Fondo de Contingencia de los PGE para financiar el despliegue de las autoridades marroquíes contra la inmigración irregular. Read more...
Madrid, 31 August 2020 – An open letter, signed by 28 health organisations, transparency associations, and academics, has called on the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to take the simple step of providing an email address so that EU citizens can send access to documents requests directly via email.
Madrid, 28 August 2020– Access Info Europe is glad to announce that its director, Helen Darbishire, has been elected as the new Chair of the UNCAC Coalition, the network that coordinates civil society activity in monitoring and promoting the UN Convention against Corruption.
Compromiso Empresarial | 12/08/2020 In Spanish- La pandemia provocada por la COVID-19 continúa alterando la vida de millones de personas y mantiene en alerta a los gobiernos de todo el mundo, debido a los rebrotes y los focos de contagios que siguen activos e impiden aplanar la curva de afectados. Read more...
Newtral | 10/08/2020 In Spanish- En plena ola de contagios, Radar COVID llega para ayudar al rastreo. Desde la SEDIA insiste en que está basada en los estándares tecnológicos más respetuosos con la privacidad, pero aún no podemos comprobarlo: el proceso de su desarrollo ha tenido algunos retrasos y hay cuestiones por aclarar. Read more...
Statewatch | 30/07/2020 Spain's government has massively stepped up funding for African states for migration control purposes in recent years. €30 million provided to Morocco is being challenged in court. Read more...