Africa: The ATI committee of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers has a new publication: “Access to information in Africa. Law, Culture and Practice,” edited by Fatima Diallo, African Studies Centre, Leiden, and Richard Calland, University of Cape Town. Published by BRILL.
The chapters and authors are:
1. The State of the Art and the Emerging Theory of Change, Richard Calland
2. The Problem of Access to Information in African Jurisdictions: Constitutionalism, Citizenship, and the Human Rights Discourse, Colin Darch
3. Transparency and Power Relations: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives on the Right of Access to Information, Fatima Diallo
4. Constitutional Domestication of the Right of Access to Information in Africa: Retrospect and Prospects, Fola Adeleke
5. Statistics, Indicators and Access to Information in African Countries,
Colin Darch
6. The Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative and Corruption in Nigeria: Rethinking the Links between Transparency and Accountability,
Uwafiokun Idemudia
7. Towards Realizing the Right of Access to Internet-Based Information in Africa, Fola Adeleke & Matilda Lasseko Phooko
8. An Actionable Constitutional Right of ATI: The Case of Southern Africa, Matilda Lasseko Phooko
9. The Uganda Freedom of Information Campaign: Stuck in the Mud?, Dan Ngabirano
10. Realizing the Right of Access to Information in Kenya: What Should Stakeholders Be on the Lookout for? Edwin Abuya
11. The Right to Information in Burkina Faso: An Unfinished Quest, Abdoul Karim Sango
12. Access to Information and Transparency: Opportunities and Challenges for Nigeria’s FOI Act 2011, Morayo Adebayo & Akinyinka Akinyoade
Open Data/United Kingdom: The chairperson of the UK government’s Open Strategy Board, Stephan Shakespeare, has a report open data policies with many recommendations. Among other things, the Shakespeare Review suggests a National Data Strategy. See also a comment by the Open Rights Group.
South Africa: An overview and history of the Right2Know Campaign by Dale T. McKinley for the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation.
EITI: Britain and France announce that they will join the Extractive Industries transparency Initiative, the Guardian reports.
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