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…
Category: SDG 16.10.2
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…
Many countries with access to information (ATI) laws lack recent data on the number of requests they received, according a new UNESCO survey. Out of…
UNESCO has launched a new survey asking governments about their laws on access to information and how they are being implemented. UNESCO is the “custodian…
By Toby McIntosh UNESCO is preparing a new survey that may shed more light on whether government record-keeping systems are adequate to assess the implementation…
By Toby McIntosh A major UNESCO survey on access to information (ATI) at the national level has been such a flop that the agency is…
UNESCO has received completed survey forms from 66 governments on the subject of freedom of information. The goal was to gather information on the functioning…
By Toby McIntosh The United Nations will soon be asking 209 nations to complete a questionnaire about access to information that has been significantly diminished…
By Toby McIntosh UNESCO has begun collecting information from 43 countries on implementation of their access to information laws, according to a March 5 announcement.…