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

Wed Aug 24 16:55:09 UTC 2011

At Sunlight we've collected a number of similar lists for the US context.
 Here's an overinclusive list of transparency-related legislation up to
2007:

http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/Disclosure_legislation

...and a view of what amended what:

http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/Disclosure_legislation_family_tree

The challenge (to me) for such an endeavor is to draw a line around what
gets included and what gets left out; amendments to transparency
requirements writ large are in virtually all major legislation (at least in
the US).

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Tim McNamara <tim.mcnamara at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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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