Open Data: The new version of the Open Data Handbook has been released by the Open Knowledge Foundation.
Bangladesh: Three years after passage of the Bangladesh Right to Information Act, 98.2 per cent of the rural population have no idea on how to use it in their daily life, according to a recent baseline survey by Citizens’ Voice for Improved local Public Services (CVIPS), conducted by the Mass-line Media Centre (MMC).
United States: A student-led project between Harvard and Stanford, http://foiabase.com, aims to “create a FOIA-centric website, called FOIAbase, where users can brainstorm ideas for potential FOIA requests, refine those ideas into actual FOIA letters, raise money to fund the requests, and browse released documents as well as statistics on the response rate and wait times of different government agencies.”
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