FOI/Private Sector: Applying FOI to the private sector, a proposal by British author George Monbiot in The Guardian.
Open Data: A call for session and talk proposals for the International Open Government Data Conference 2012 to be held on July 10-12th in Washington D.C., co-hosted by the World Bank and the US Government’s Data.gov team. Go to http://www.data.gov/communities/conference (follow link to “Call for Sessions/Papers”).
Open Data: Canadian blogger David Eaves and others on whether the open data movement is a “joke.”
FOI Monitoring Resources: Civic Software Index, including links to FOI monitoring sites.
Canada: Coming this fall, a book on FOI in Canada, from UBC Press. “ Drawing together the perspectives of social scientists, journalists, and ATI advocates, Brokering Access explores the policies and practices surrounding access to information at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels. This groundbreaking volume is the first of its kind to promote the idea that ATI should be used as a critical research strategy. It is a vital resource for scholars, policy makers, journalists, and anyone who cares about access to information and its effect on all Canadians. Edited by Kevin Walby, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Victoria, and Mike Larsen, an instructor in the Criminology Department of Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Data Journalism: The Data Journalism Handbook has been published by the Open Knowledge Foundation.
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