[open-government] Building an openly licenced, global history of all open government/freedom of information activities

Wed Aug 24 04:34:31 UTC 2011

Thanks Andrew. These links are great. I'll plod my way through them as
time progresses.

My interest is making sure that all of the information is machine
readable. I quite like the idea of being able to place things on maps
(see http://weavinghistory.org/thread/geochrono/b6f9b907-3033-4acc-accd-e7b8f7f29deb)
and that requires consistency.

I hope that something like the list I started will be able to unify
others' work. However, naturally it will require a critical mass of
data before people see it as worthwhile.

On 24 August 2011 16:06, Andrew Ecclestone <andrew at ecclestone.net> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> I think you might be slightly re-inventing the wheel here, at least with regard to freedom of information regimes.
>
> There are a number of sites that already collate this information, some with a fair amount of detail.  You could either just refer people to the sites below, or populate the spreadsheet with information found at these sites.
>
> For example:
> http://right2info.org/laws - probably one of the most comprehensive collation of statutes
>
> http://right2info.org/cases - collates a lot of key jurisprudence
>
> http://www.freedominfo.org/regions/ - again, pretty comprehensive and well maintained
>
> Freedominfo.org also has an extensive FOI blogroll, here:
> http://www.freedominfo.org/about-us/foia-blog-roll
>
> http://www.ucc.ie/law/lawonline/freedom/
>
> http://www.righttoknow.ca/en/Content/default.asp  (exclusively Canadian)
>
> Where the spreadsheet would appear to add value is if it collates various jurisdictions open data pronouncements, policies, etc.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> ---- Tim McNamara <tim.mcnamara at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> =============
> Members of this mailing list have a tremendous wealth of knowledge
> about freedom of information and open government within their
> countries. I believe that we can create a list of every significant
> statute, court case, open data website, presidential speech or other
> activity that relates to open government quite quickly. The history is
> nearly empty at the moment (I've added New Zealand's Official
> Information Act 1982 as a test run)
>
> If you have two minutes, please add your country's freedom of
> information law: http://bit.ly/nVeDCW.
>
> Direct links:
>
> Form (both are identical):
>  - http://bit.ly/nVeDCW
>  - https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG5HWnpGOHYtVVJLMTRLUVg1ZDlaWUE6MQ
>
> Spreadsheet of responses (both are identical):
>  - http://bit.ly/rkhOHG
>  - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq_3OYelM4ZUdG5HWnpGOHYtVVJLMTRLUVg1ZDlaWUE&hl=en_GB#gid=0
>
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