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News from the Network
ATI Network: Celebrating Wins, Sharing Lessons, Shaping What’s Next
December 10, 2025
For our final community gathering of 2025 we brought together partners from across our global community of practice to reflect on what we’ve already achieved together and what we want to achieve in the future.
Cara Raeker, lead author of the landmark report on monitoring Freedom of Information in Europe gave a keynote exploring the shifting landscape of access to information before a curated showcase of video interviews with journalists and citizens using ATI, and some highlights from previous gatherings.
ATI Masterclass: turning requests into reporting with Fiquem Sabendo
November 24, 2025
At this ATI Community of Practice meeting, we got a behind-the-scenes look at how Fiquem Sabendo, a Brazilian non-profit newsroom and data agency, uses Brazil’s FOI law to unlock data and support investigative journalism.
Maria Vitória Ramos, Co-founder and Director of Fiquem Sabendo, shares how they prepare FOI requests, process government data, and support journalists in turning information into impactful reporting.
Networked auditors: crowdsourcing and community-led ATI
November 11, 2025
The recording of an ATI Community of Practice meeting discussing how organisations are using crowdsourcing and ATI laws to uncover data, monitor public projects, and drive accountability.
Speakers are: Nnenna Eze from PPDC Nigeria, Marzena Błaszczyk from Citizens Network Watchdog Poland and Stefan Wehrmeyer from FragDenStaat in Germany.
Who are we?
mySociety is proud to be a member of an active and ambitious global network of organisations working to promote and strengthen Access To Information rights across the world. We meet regularly, to share best practice, collaborate on ATI campaigns, and improve our own skills through one-to-one mentorships.
The ATI Network Community of Practice includes:
- Abrimos.info (Mexico)
- Access Info Europe (AskTheEU, EU)
- Atlatszo (KiMitTud, Hungary)
- Code For Croatia (Imamo pravo znati, Croatia)
- Dostup do Pravdy (Ukraine)
- Fiquem Sabendo (Brazil)
- ForSet (AskGov, Georgia)
- Handlingar (Sweden)
- Ia Statul la Intrebari (Romania)
- iLab (Liberia)
- Informace Pro Všechny (Czech Republic)
- MaDada / Open Knowledge France (France)
- mySociety (WhatDoTheyKnow, UK)
- Open Cities Lab (South Africa)
- Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland (FragDenStaat Austria, Germany)
- Open Up (South Africa)
- Plaza Cívica (Peru)
- PPDC (Nigeria)
- SPOON (de Woo-Knop, Netherlands)
- Transparencia (Belgium)
- Transparency International Slovenia (Slovenia)
- Vouliwatch (Arthro5a, Greece)
- Vreau Info (Moldova)
Recent meetings and learning events
ATI Network: Celebrating Wins, Sharing Lessons, Shaping What’s Next
December 10, 2025
For our final community gathering of 2025 we brought together partners from across our global community of practice to reflect on what we’ve already achieved together and what we want to achieve in the future.
Cara Raeker, lead author of the landmark report on monitoring Freedom of Information in Europe gave a keynote exploring the shifting landscape of access to information before a curated showcase of video interviews with journalists and citizens using ATI, and some highlights from previous gatherings.
ATI Masterclass: turning requests into reporting with Fiquem Sabendo
November 24, 2025
At this ATI Community of Practice meeting, we got a behind-the-scenes look at how Fiquem Sabendo, a Brazilian non-profit newsroom and data agency, uses Brazil’s FOI law to unlock data and support investigative journalism.
Maria Vitória Ramos, Co-founder and Director of Fiquem Sabendo, shares how they prepare FOI requests, process government data, and support journalists in turning information into impactful reporting.
Networked auditors: crowdsourcing and community-led ATI
November 11, 2025
The recording of an ATI Community of Practice meeting discussing how organisations are using crowdsourcing and ATI laws to uncover data, monitor public projects, and drive accountability.
Speakers are: Nnenna Eze from PPDC Nigeria, Marzena Błaszczyk from Citizens Network Watchdog Poland and Stefan Wehrmeyer from FragDenStaat in Germany.
Training resources
Impact Measuring Workshop from OpenUp ZA
November 27, 2024
A 45 minute workshop given by OpenUp ZA on creating and using impact measures for advocacy and campaign work
Fundraising 101
July 24, 2024
A beginners guide to fundraising streams
Creating Datasets with FOI Data
March 21, 2024
A blog post about the training on creating datasets from FOI data
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