Fabulous piece on global transparency, and US laggards…
Susan Crawford is a Bloomberg View columnist and a professor of law at Cardozo School of Law. She’s provided a nice look at global transparency movements here, as well as the lack of momentum in the...
View ArticleFrom Canada, another FOI dispute on campus…
From our neighbors to the north comes a fresh academic freedom/FOI dispute: Amir Attaran speaking at an H1N1 conference at the University of Ottawa/ (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A prominent University of...
View ArticleThe academic FOI request blowback makes its way to the UK…
File this one under “it was bound to happen…” A cross-party group of MPs has recommended a change in the law to prevent unpublished research data being released under the Freedom of Information Act....
View ArticleWatch Heather Brooke’s TED Talk on the Parliament FOI Story…
OK, full disclosure: I am HUGE fan of Heather, having chatted with her often through the years about FOI stuff, so I HAD to pass this along! If this doesn’t get you pumped up about the power of FOI to...
View ArticleAn interesting take on transparency in China…
Media reports of the worst air pollution ever recorded in China’s capital Beijing, over the weekend of January 12-13 2013, have added urgency to a question that shadows China’s economic rise: how will...
View ArticleWe’re No. 7! We’re No. 7!
I want a big foam finger. Fabled Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis once said, “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” If that is in fact the case, then the world as a whole is a...
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