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ARROJANDO LUZ A LA FORMA EN QUE SE TOMAN LAS DECISIONES EN RESPUESTA A LA CRISIS HUMANITARIA EN EUROPA
Transparency of Media Ownership FAQs
If we do not know who the owners of media companies are, it is impossible to take steps to address excessive media concentrations and conflicts of interest. For example, prior to amendments in the law requiring disclosure of media ownership in 2011, the leading national broadcasters in Georgia were seen as mouthpieces of government and their real owners were
Access Info Europe y Civio se reúnen con el recién formado Consejo de la Transparencia
Madrid, 16 de febrero de 2015 - Access Info Europe y Civio han mantenido una reunión con el Consejo de la Transparencia de España con el objetivo de presentarse formalmente y poner en común reflexiones y posibles mejoras a la ley de transparencia y su implementación. El Consejo de la Transparencia empezó a trabajar el mismo día de entrada en
MEP Julia Reda questions European Commission on postal address policy
Madrid, 12 February 2015 – A Member of the European Parliament, Julia Reda (Pirate Party, Germany), has filed a Parliamentary Question calling on the European Commission to provide justifications for its policy of refusing to register access to documents requests if citizens do not provide their personal postal address. Access Info Europe welcomes this investigation into the postal address policy,
Who Owns the Media? Sometimes No One Knows
This post was originally published in the Open Society Foundations website. London, 11 February 2015 - Southeastern Europe suffers from some of the world’s least transparent media ownership. In a Mapping Digital Media (MDM) report on Macedonia in 2012, Roberto Belicanec and Zoran Ricliev wrote that "there are no formal or legal requirements for media, other than broadcasters, to disclose
Tres de los cinco consejos de transparencia en España no son independientes
Zoom News | 03/02/2015 Spanish – El Consejo de la Transparencia estatal, el organismo que asegura que se cumplan los requisitos de transparencia y protege el derecho de acceso a la información pública de la ciudadanía, se constituyó este mes de enero con una directora elegida por el Ministerio de Hacienda, Ester Arizmendi, y otros siete vocales propuestos por sus instituciones
Taller: Open Government Parternship
29-30 de enero de 2015, La Haya, Holanda Andreas Pavlou will be attending the Open Government Partnership pilot workshop to discuss Spain's approach to open government, in The Hague, the Netherlands. More information on this event coming soon.