Open Government Partnership Global Summit | 2015
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:11:14+01:00Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 – 9:00am to Thursday, October 29, 2015 – 4:00pm Location: Mexico
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 – 9:00am to Thursday, October 29, 2015 – 4:00pm Location: Mexico
Cyprus Mail | 20/10/2015 English – Cyprus aspires to have among the best possible freedom of information (FOI) legislation in the EU, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou has said, and place restrictions on access to information only in cases where it was necessary. Read more...
Madrid, 16 October 2015 - Access Info Europe submitted a formal complaint to the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in relation to the Spanish government’s manifest lack of commitment towards the principles and values supported by the Alliance, of which Spain is member since 2011. Access Info’s complaint is specifically structured around four key obstacles to transparency, participation and accountability which constantly complicate collaboration and cooperation with the government when trying advance in open government matters: No communications mechanisms have been set up to enable dialogue and facilitate consultation processes with civil society; this includes the absence of an identifiable contact
eldiario.es | 03/10/2015 Spanish – Un estudiante solicita una beca al Ministerio de Educación a principios de curso. Espera unos meses hasta que, si todo va bien, le conceden una parte sin decirle cuánto recibirá en total. Espera otro tanto y le dan otra cuantía provisional. Ya hacia el final del curso, recibe la resolución definitiva con el último pago. Sólo entonces se entera de cuál es la cantidad completa de su beca y, de una parte de ella, no le dicen de dónde viene la cifra. Si quiere comprobar que no es ni más ni menos de lo que
Madrid, 30 September 2015 - Access Info Europe along with European Digital Rights (EDRi) and other 16 signatory organisations, today sent an open letter to European Parliament President Martin Schulz, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Council Secretary-General Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen, calling for a major reform of the so-called “trialogues”. The letter calls for public access to be granted to the trialogue meetings, and for the systematic and timely publication of all trialogue documents. The letter remains open to signatories. “Citizens should be able to scrutinise EU decision-making,” said Andreas Pavlou, Campaigner Researcher at Access Info Europe. “The lack of transparency around
Madrid, 28 September 2015, By Helen Darbishire, Executive Director, Access Info Europe I am sitting in the Access Info Europe office in Madrid and staring in dismay at a document from the European Commission which seems to have more black lines covering the information it contains than anything useful. Dismayed and also amazed that the reason for not giving out information about a possibly problematic public procurement process in Serbia – a waste sludge processing plant to be funded with European taxpayer’s money – is apparently the personal privacy of those responsible for the decision. It’s 28 September 2015, the
Yorokobu | 11/09/2015 Spanish – En 1962 una bióloga norteamericana, Rachel Carson, publicó un libro que haría historia. Se trataba de Silent Spring, donde, en síntesis, denunciaba que el DDT no se limitaba a ser un pesticida sino un biocida, un veneno que afectaba a todos los seres humanos [...] Este problema dio lugar a la enunciación del denominado derecho a saber. [...] Sin embargo, aunque nos parezca un derecho básico y elemental, no se trata de un derecho explícitamente enunciado, sino que para su ejercicio se ha de recurrir a otras piezas de la ley. Read more…
Date: 10th October 2015, 16:00-17:00 Location: Lillehammer, Norway
Date: 8th October 2015, 14:30-17:30 Location: Vienna
La Estrella | 04/09/2015 Spanish – En los últimos meses, se han creado Polétika y TIPI Ciudadano, dos plataformas de organizaciones y movimientos sociales en España con el objetivo de influir en la toma de decisiones políticas sobre distintos temas sociales: infancia, educación, cooperación y desarrollo, sanidad, empleo, vivienda, exclusión social, inmigración y violencia de género. Read more…