[Open-data-census] Information about the status of FOI-Legislation in Census countries

Sun Oct 20 17:38:24 BST 2013

oops, second point, I'm not sure you could correlate the *number* of open data sets. Some countries, like the US, have massive governments, with tons of data, probably many of them 'open'. Other countries might just have smaller governments, which produce less data, so even if all of them were open, they wouldn't have as many as the US. Some proportion perhaps?

Gene 

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 From: Daniela Mattern <daniela.mattern at it3s.org>
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Subject: [Open-data-census] Information about the status of FOI-Legislation	in Census countries

Hi all,

I am continuing to look at census data and wonder about the correlation between 

number of open data sets and the existence and quality of Freedom of Information Legislation.

Do we have this data? 

It would be awesome, if country editors could provide information on the availability of Freedom of Information Acts in their country, inform the date when these Acts passed congress, etc. It would also be interesting to have a link to the full text of the legislation.

What do you think about this?

Is it easy to include these fields in the census form? if not, a simple Google Form could also help out.

Hope to hear from you soon,

Daniela

p.s. dreaming a bit further: recently I got to know the comparitive constitutions project funded by Google.org. The application is available here: https://www.constituteproject.org

I asked myself whether it won't be interesting to compare the different FOI Acts in a similar way. By doing so, we could:

	* provide an ideal framework for access to information legislation

	* compare till what extend the text in the specific country is close to this ideal
	* advocate for change in countries that have very poor legislations
	* monitor the legislative process in countries that are still discussing there Freedom of Information Acts 
What do you think?

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