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

Wed Aug 24 16:59:21 UTC 2011

Similarly, here's our list of everything to do with earmark reform, from
laws to rules changes and press coverage (pretty exhaustive):

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

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:55 PM, John Wonderlich
<johnwonderlich at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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