Transparency Voices: The Guardian features 12 transparency advocates:
Peru Carlos Arroyo, national co-ordinator for Peru’s Anti-Corruption Network, Lima
Nigeria Faith Nwadishi, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative board member; national co-ordinator, Publish What You Pay
Bangladesh Hasibur Rahman, Management and Resources Development Initiative executive director, development worker, rights activist
Mexico José Luis Moyá, consultant and landlord, Mexico
Pakistan Muddassir Rizvi, election expert and chief operating officer at the Free and Fair Election Network, Islamabad
Afghanistan Yama Torabi, director, Integrity Watch Afghanistan, Kabul
India Nikhil Dey, social activist, Rajasthan
Nigeria Oluseun Onigbinde, founder of BudgIT Nigeria
Uganda Beatrice Nabajja-Mugambe, executive director of Development Research Training, Kampala
Serbia Natasa Djereg, director, Centre for Ecology and Sustainable Development
Philippines Vincent Lazatin, executive director of the Transparency and Accountability Network, Quezon City
Equatorial Guinea Tutu Alicante, executive director, EG Justice
Open Data: The EU Parliament adopts new rules on access to government data. See the press release from Parliament, the Commission announcement, and a blog post by Nellie Kroes.
When fully implemented, according to the Commission, the new EU rules will:
Create a genuine right to re-use public information, not present in the original Directive; All public data not covered by one of the exceptions will become re-usable;
Massively expand the reach of the Directive to include libraries, museums and archives for the first time;
Establish that public sector bodies can charge at maximum the marginal cost for reproduction, provision and dissemination of the information. In exceptional cases, full cost recovery (plus a reasonable return on investment) will remain possible;
Oblige public sector bodies to be more transparent about the charging rules and conditions they apply;
Encourage the availability of Governmental data in machine-readable and open formats;
Introduce new rules on digitisation agreements, which will support public private partnerships while protecting the cultural sector institutions and the interests of the general public.
OGP: Martin Tisne blogs about the OGP, beginning, “I worry that civil society advocates working on Open Government Partnership are making a tactical mistake.”
United States: The state of New York publishes a provisional open data handbook.
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