Madrid, 20 de enero de 2012 – Hoy Access Info Europe ha acudido a una reunión en el Ministerio de la Presidencia convocada por el nuevo Secretario de Estado de Relaciones con las Cortes Generales para hablar sobre la futura ley de transparencia y acceso a la información para España. Access Info Europe ha destacado durante la reunión la necesidad de que la futura ley cubra ciertas carencias que las propuestas anteriores excluían como son el reconocimiento del derecho de acceso a la información como un derecho fundamental y la necesidad de designar un órgano independiente de revisión que garantice

Madrid, 20 January 2012 – Access Info Europe has welcomed today’s publication of the Navarra region’s draft law on Transparency and Open Government, qualifying it as a «highly progressive law» which sets new standards for Spain and internationally. The draft law was developed in consultation with the public and input from expert groups such as Access Info Europe and is now subject to a further public consultation until 7 February 2012. It contains three main sections: proactive publication, the right to request information, and public participation. «This is a strong law in line with the best access to information laws

Madrid, 20 December 2011: The new crowd-funding platform Goteo on Tuesday presented the first cheque for a successful project to Access Info, which received for €5,150 for a project to build an information request platform in Spain, in anticipation of the new access to information law expected to be adopted in the first half of 2012. The Goteo platform, whose name makes a reference to the «drop by drop» nature of crowd funding, was launched in November. In just 30 days Access Info received the minimum funding it needs for project, €4,100. At time of writing the total donated was