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El avance de los datos abiertos en España y el camino por recorrer

2018-11-13T09:42:01+01:00

Bez | 24/05/2017 Spanish - España avanza a paso firme en la cultura de datos abiertos, situándose en la undécima posición (de un total de 115 países) del último Barómetro de Datos Abiertos (ODB, por sus siglas en inglés), con datos actualizados a 2016. A paso firme, con buena letra pero también con necesidades a abordar, como destacan diferentes expertos, para que exista una sólida educación Open Data. Read more...

El avance de los datos abiertos en España y el camino por recorrer2018-11-13T09:42:01+01:00

EU Urged to Adopt Comprehensive Transparency Agenda

2018-11-13T10:03:20+01:00

Madrid/Brussels, 9 May 2017 – On Europe Day, Access Info is calling on the European Union to commit to and implement essential transparency and open government reforms to reverse the growing sense among European citizens that they are distanced from Brussels and that decisions are taken behind closed doors with little or no accountability. Access Info’s mapping, carried out with our partners, reveals that it is not possible for citizens to get information on decisions such as that to drop EU anti-corruption reports or who really negotiated the controversial EU-Turkey deal. Other transparency blackspots relate to areas of public interest,

EU Urged to Adopt Comprehensive Transparency Agenda2018-11-13T10:03:20+01:00

Court Victory: Spanish Government must be open about Open Government Partnership activities!

2018-11-13T10:03:20+01:00

Madrid, 4 May 2017 – In an important victory for advancing government transparency in Spain, the Madrid High Court has ruled that the Spanish Government should provide Access Info Europe with a series of documents related to its participation in the Open Government Partnership (OGP). In a particularly interesting decision in Spain’s still young and evolving jurisprudence on the right of access to information – the Transparency Law came into force in December 2014 – the Court found that for civil society to participate in decision making on open government policies, having full access to relevant information is essential. “We

Court Victory: Spanish Government must be open about Open Government Partnership activities!2018-11-13T10:03:20+01:00