By Toby McIntosh Reporters around the world are actively using access to information laws to fuel important stories. Success stories pop up all the time.…
Category: Freedom of Information
By Toby McIntosh The pace of passing national access to information laws has slowed markedly and may not speed up any time soon. A variety…
By Toby McIntosh I started collecting news articles based on access to information requests after a speaker at a conference wondered if anyone had any…
By Toby McIntosh The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is planning to create a detailed methodology for assessing the implementation of national access…
By Toby McIntosh The scores earned by some countries on UNESCO’s 2021 survey about access to information include some eyebrow-raising results. UNESCO chose not to…
By Toby McIntosh Although many intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) have adopted access to information policies, many have not, and the policies that do exist are proving…
By Toby McIntosh About half of United Nations agencies hold closed meetings of their key decision-making bodies, according to the survey of 27 UN bodies…
By Toby McIntosh It’s been more than a year since eyeonglobaltransparency.net asked the World Bank for documents concerning the Bank’s controversial position and actions concerning…
By Toby McIntosh Access to government information is becoming a coronavirus casualty in some countries. Governments around the world, some which have sent workers home,…