{"id":10797,"date":"2013-02-04T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T22:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/?p=10797"},"modified":"2013-02-04T18:30:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T22:30:46","slug":"tanzania-say-more-study-needed-on-foi-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/2013\/02\/tanzania-say-more-study-needed-on-foi-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Say More Study Needed on FOI Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tanzanian government has said more research is necessary before it introduces a freedom of information bill.<\/p>\n<p>Amos Makalla, Deputy Minister for Information, Youth, Culture and Sports, said Feb. 1 that a bill will not be tabled in the National Assembly soon, which was \u201cwidely anticipated by stakeholders including media practitioners,\u201d according to an article by Florian Kaijage in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ippmedia.com\/frontend\/index.php?l=50772\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">IPPMedia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Makalla said the government will proceed on a \u00a0Media Services Act \u201cwhich will establish key organs to oversee media practice, whilst we conduct research on the Right to Information Bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0One parliamentarian, Kangi Lugola,\u00a0replied that\u00a0a freedom of information bill also is very important, according to the article.<\/p>\n<p>Makalla said is the government is still researching the bill, noting that the Media Council of Tanzania had sponsored a visit by parliamentarians to India last year to study the Indian system. \u201cThis is a revelation that even MCT needs more time to research on the matter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tanzanian government has said more research is necessary before it introduces a freedom of information bill. Amos Makalla, Deputy Minister for Information, Youth, Culture and Sports, said Feb. 1 that a bill will not be tabled in the National Assembly soon, which was \u201cwidely anticipated by stakeholders including media practitioners,\u201d according to an article […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[494],"tags":[748],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E8o3-2O9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10801,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797\/revisions\/10801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}