{"id":6457,"date":"2011-08-25T11:58:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T15:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2011-08-25T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T16:48:00","slug":"foi-notes-africa-unesco-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/2011\/08\/foi-notes-africa-unesco-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"FOI Notes: Africa, UNESCO, United States, United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>West Africa:<\/strong> The Africa Freedom of Information Centre has issued a study on access to information in Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria. Follow this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africafoicentre.org\/index.php?option=com_docman&amp;Itemid=572\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>, and got to bottom of listings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UNESCO:<\/strong> The online<a href=\"http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0019\/001936\/193653E.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> report<\/a> on the\u00a02010 UNESCO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/communication-and-information\/flagship-project-activities\/world-press-freedom-day\/previous-celebrations\/2010\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">World Press Freedom Day meeting, <\/a>on the theme of: \u201cFreedom of Information: The Right to Know\u201d is available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>United States:<\/strong> Policy options for U.S legislators are outlined in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/secrecy\/R41933.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> by the Congressional Research Service entitled \u201cFreedom of Information Act (FOIA): Background and Policy Options for the 112<sup>th<\/sup> Congress,\u201d by Wendy Ginsberg dated July 26, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>United States:<\/strong> The IBM Center for The Business of Government has issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessofgovernment.org\/report\/assessing-public-participation-open-government-era\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>, \u00a0\u201cAssessing Public Participation in an Open Government Era: A Review of Federal Agency Plans,\u201d \u00a0by Carolyn J.Lukensmeyer, Joe Goldman, and David Stern.\u00a0 \u201cThe plans of top agencies have been assessed by both the government and advocacy groups to see if they met the requirements laid out in the directives, often with an emphasis on the degree to which they increase transparency.\u00a0 This report focuses on how well these agency plans increase public participation and collaboration.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>United Kingdom:<\/strong> Article 19 has issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.article19.org\/resources.php\/resource\/2710\/en\/uk:-100-years-of-secrecy\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> on the UK\u2019s 1911 Official Secrets Act on the occasion of its 100th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Africa: The Africa Freedom of Information Centre has issued a study on access to information in Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria. Follow this link, and got to bottom of listings. UNESCO: The online report on the\u00a02010 UNESCO World Press Freedom Day meeting, on the theme of: \u201cFreedom of Information: The Right to Know\u201d is available. [&hellip;]<\/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":[738,834,752],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E8o3-1G9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457"}],"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=6457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6460,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions\/6460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}