[open-government] hungarian woes

Fri Apr 6 14:03:15 UTC 2012

On 6 April 2012 14:56, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:
> hey,
>
> a new law-proposal is causing some stirrup in hungary:
>> A draft bill on the re-use of public sector information submitted to the
>> Hungarian Parliament by the government of the country makes national FOI
>> legislation highly unpredictable - according to HCLU and K-Monitor, major
>> Hungarian NGOs working for transparency and freedom of information. The bill
>> intends to harmonize Hungarian PSI legislation on grounds of the 2003/98/EC
>> Directive on the re-use of public sector information, a directive soon to be
>> revised due to a proposal of the European Commission. HCLU and K-Monitor ask
>> legislative authorities to withdraw their draft proposal due to the
>> following reasons.
> http://kmonitor.hu/hirek/magyar-hirek/profit-making-through-foi
>
> also from the official journal, apparently the government wants to join this:
> http://www.opengovpartnership.org/
> does anyone have more info about this, is at least this reasonable?

It's reasonable ...

Rufus