Featuring discussion of recent ATI/FOI wins, Gen Z outreach via influencers, and shared ATI challenges like batch requests and data backups.
News from the network, including collaboration between Access Info, MaDada, and OKF France on aligning French access to documents law to international ATI standards.
News from the network, including a new anti-SLAPP platform from Sieć Obywatelska Watchdog Polska, and a long-fought-for ATI win for KiMitTud.
News from the network, including policy recommendations from Vouliwatch/Arthro5A, and legal reform collaboration between SPOON, MaDada, and Access Info.
News from the network, including legal success for FragDenStaat, impact measurement mentorship with SPOON, and a new campaign from KiMitTud.
A look at what happened in the ATI network in October 2024
A roundup of what the Access to Information network sites have been up to in September 2024
Hollie Russon Gilman is particularly interested in revitalising American democracy, local innovation, and the opportunities and challenges of digital technologies to enhance governance and public policy.
The PWYP Data Extractors Programme is a global initiative which trains participants to uncover and make sense of extractives data.
MHCLG share how they are helping Local Government to ‘fix the plumbing’, by putting the basics in place now — and quickly. Slide deck.
The Open Government Partnership is perhaps the most prominent international effort to connect citizens and governments through the use of technology.
Looking at different setups of the volunteer network across the globe. A slide deck.
Research on running an Access to Information requesting website in Europe, looking at the challenges faced by organisations, strengths and success stories.
After AlaveteliCon 2015, a round-up of the common challenges of running an FOI site that are the same no matter which country you are working in.
Researchers Savita Bailur and Tom Longley answer this question: “In what circumstances, if any, can the FOI tools mySociety builds be shown to have measurable impacts on the ability of citizens to exert power over underperforming institutions?”