{"id":13528,"date":"2014-04-03T15:11:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T19:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/?p=13528"},"modified":"2014-04-04T12:43:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T16:43:04","slug":"foi-notes-eu-ogp-open-data-journalism-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/2014\/04\/foi-notes-eu-ogp-open-data-journalism-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"FOI Notes: EU, OGP, Open Data, Journalism, Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>European Union:<\/strong> StateWatch<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statewatch.org\/ombudsman-cases\/calling-the-agencies-to-account-frontex-europol-eurojust.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> comments<\/a> on access at three EU institutions, stating:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Frontex given until end of March 2014 to comply with the Ombudsman&#8217;s Recommendations to change its Management Board Decision putting into effect the Regulation on public access to EU documents<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Eurojust seeks to avoid any compliance until some undefined point in the future<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Europol meets four Ombudsman Recommendations &#8211; but the launch of its public register of documents &#8220;planned for completion by the end of 2013&#8221; is overdue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>OGP:<\/strong> Joe Foti, deputy director of the Open Government Partnership writes an op ed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trust.org\/item\/20140328124808-ark57\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">article<\/a> beginning:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Three months from now 47 of the 63 countries participating in the Open Government Partnership are due to make new commitments to advance accountability, transparency and participation. This is a critical moment to show that ambitious changes across a range of policies are possible when reformers in government and civil society seize the OGP opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open Data:<\/strong> The World Bank explains its plans for an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/opendata\/time-right-open-data-fund\" target=\"_blank\">open data fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOI and Journalists:<\/strong> The author of FOI Directory in the UK, Matt Burgess, is writing a book about how journalists can use FOI, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/foidirectory.co.uk\/details-on-new-foi-book-for-journalists\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">blog post<\/a> about the project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOI and Journalists:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/ire.org\/blog\/transparency-watch\/2014\/03\/22\/sunshine-week-audio-playlist-tipsheets-and-more\/?utm_source=hootsuite&amp;utm_campaign=hootsuite\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Audio clips<\/a> containing FOI tips from a Sunshine week event in the US.<\/p>\n<p><strong>United States:<\/strong> Five transparency priorities from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/ralph-nader\/government-secrecy_b_5036280.html?utm_hp_ref=media&amp;ir=Media\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Nader.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Entertainment:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foialove\" target=\"_blank\">FOIA Love<\/a> is a monthly comedy show at the Tank Theater in New York City called \u201ca based on public records. See video of the March show \u2013 \u201cHere&#8217;s what happens when NY&#8217;s finest actors give a dramatic reading of FTC complaints about eHarmony and JDate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union: StateWatch comments on access at three EU institutions, stating: \u00a0Frontex given until end of March 2014 to comply with the Ombudsman&#8217;s Recommendations to change its Management Board Decision putting into effect the Regulation on public access to EU documents \u00a0Eurojust seeks to avoid any compliance until some undefined point in the future \u00a0Europol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[494],"tags":[834,842],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E8o3-3wc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528"}],"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=13528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13550,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528\/revisions\/13550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}