[open-government] hungarian woes

Fri Apr 6 18:08:53 UTC 2012

hey all,
Stef's right, it seems now that the Hungarian government indeed wants to
join the Open Government Partnership since many NGOs urged them to do so
after releasing their new anti-corruption strategy. (the draft paper didn't
include any reference to the OGP.) we're quite sceptical of the actual
impact of OGP and would love to hear your comments on it.
thanks,
Julia

2012/4/6 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>

> 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
>
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