India: The Mahiti Adhikar Gujarat Parishad right to information helpline, which was launched in May 2006 and has received more than 60,000 calls, has won a special award for its contribution to RTI activism from People’s Union for Civil Liberties ( PUCL). See media report here.
FOI Map of Latin America: This interactive map about FOI laws in Latin America was produced by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.
Open Data: “Open Data, Open Society,” a research project about openness of public data in EU local administration (Download pdf), by Marco Fioretti, for the Laboratory of Economics and Management of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, financed through the DIME Network (Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe.
Also, a one year anniversary article on data.gov.uk by its founder.
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