By Toby McIntosh The United Nations Environment Programme is continuing its awkward and slow handling on access to information requests. A decision concerning an appeal…
The drive toward disclosure of the “GEMs” database, seems to be perking along, still with many questions unanswered and limited information. EYE has received a…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank has provided a smidgen of new information about the probable disclosure of the “GEMs” database, but also left many…
A handful of governments still resist making public the detailed reports on their economies done by the International Monetary Fund. Publication of the documents is…
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 There’s a transparency subtext to a scoop by Colum Lynch in Devex about a United Nations report that documents the theft of…
By Toby McIntosh When read through a transparency lens, the recent UN “global stocktake” report identifies numerous information gaps related to climate change. Some of…
By Toby McIntosh The UN Environment Programme’s access to information system is dysfunctional. This conclusion is based on personal experience. During 2023, I filed four…
By Peter Ungphakorn The following article is reprinted with permission from Trade β Blog, an independent blog started by Peter Ungphakorn, who worked at the WTO…