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Spanish government to decide on transparency law in one month

2018-11-13T10:13:34+01:00

Meeting with Ministry of Presidency secures commitment on draft law Madrid, 17 march 2011- A meeting held today between Spain’s Ministry of the Presidency and civil society organisations of Spain’s Coalicion Pro Acceso resulted in a commitment to provide, within one month, information on whether or not the Spanish government will pass the draft transparency law to the parliament. After explaining the delays in the adoption of the law given, amongst other things, other urgent matters facing government, Minister Ramón Jáuregui assured the Coalition that the law has not been definitively shelved, and that during the coming month he will

Spanish government to decide on transparency law in one month2018-11-13T10:13:34+01:00

Successful Twitter Campaign: Getting a meeting with Spain’s Ministry of the Presidency

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On 8 March 2011, Access Info Europe launched its first Twitter campaign asking for information about the status of Spain’s access to information law from the Ministry of the Presidency. During the day around 300 people sent a tweet to the recently inaugurated Twitter profile of the Ministry, with the message “Where is the transparency law?” The ministry responded rapidly, by phoning Access Info Europe and offering a meeting between Minister Ramón Jáuregui and representatives of the NGO platform the Coalición Pro Acceso on 17 March.

Successful Twitter Campaign: Getting a meeting with Spain’s Ministry of the Presidency2018-11-13T10:13:34+01:00

Access for Rights: Planned Information Request Actions

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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 focusing on include: •         Mandatory Data Retention – right to privacy. •         EU- Passenger Name Record – right to privacy / freedom of movement •         New policing techniques – freedom of assembly. •         Biometric Identity Documents – right to privacy

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Access for Rights: action on MDR

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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.

Access for Rights: action on MDR2018-11-13T10:13:34+01:00

Open Cyprus Project: Results

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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 access to  information in Cyprus found systematic breaches, in particular the non-responsiveness of public bodies resulting in 72% administrative silences in the Republic of Cyprus and 78% administrative silences in the northern part of Cyprus. Of the 393 requests submitted

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Open Cyprus Project: Public Consultation

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 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 to know and the best mechanisms for advancing transparency and public participation whilst at the same time, the Access Info Cyprus team held round tables with civil society, journalists, business persons and public officials from across the island. The findings,

Open Cyprus Project: Public Consultation2018-11-13T10:13:35+01:00

Visualizar

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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 depends on information designers having access to data bases. Access Info Europe will give participants guidance on accessing data bases from public bodies and will monitor levels of access. This year Visualizar is devoted to Understanding Infrastructures. The call for

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Ten Open Data Guidelines launched in Tbilisi

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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 be achieved. They provide a useful structure which Access Info recommends as a model for the elaboration of similar principles in other countries and at an international level.

Ten Open Data Guidelines launched in Tbilisi2018-11-13T10:13:35+01:00

Letter sent to MEPs pre-vote

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Global call for MEPs to protect transparency of the European Union Over 250 organisations, journalists and campaigners call for MEPs to reject measures to limit public access to information The European Union is engaging in a review of its access to documents regulation that could result in freedom of information being severely curtailed across Europe. The Commission is proposing changes that would reduce the number of documents available to the public and would allow Member States to veto the publication of documents submitted by them to the EU institutions. These proposals will be debated by the LIBE committee on Civil

Letter sent to MEPs pre-vote2018-11-13T10:13:35+01:00

EU Press Releases

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Access Info's European Union Press Releases To see other press releases not exclusively related to the European Union, please click here 2011 16 of 27 Member States refuse to provide information on EU transparency negotiations Brussels/Madrid, Monday 21 March 2011 - European citizens can’t find out from either Brussels or from national governments which countries are lobbying against EU transparency, according to a report launched by the NGO Access Info Europe this week. Read more... General Court of the European Union rules refusal illegitimate - Access Info wins vs. EU Council Brussels/Madrid, Monday 22 March 2011 - The General Court

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