... are not always accessible, due to resource constraints, institutional policies, and privacy concerns. Researchers have attempted to access novel data sources through surveys, semistructured interviews, and databases; however, these methodologies are limited. To improve access to data, Freedom of Information...

... This review considers the Panel Discussion on Digital, Media and Information Literacy—Report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and explores the report’s key implications for human rights practitioners and their organizations. civil society freedom of expression freedom...

... of this study is the recommendation that specific approaches are now required to reduce the disparities that DfE data show. child welfare services freedom of information Gypsy Roma Traveller There is considerable research evidence that Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children are overrepresented in child welfare...

... contracts. However, there remains a lack of evidence as to the nature and extent of this accountability gap and the implications for legislative reform. This article presents findings on non-compliance from a comprehensive field experiment using Freedom of Information requests on the Private Finance...

... Freedom of information Impact on Whitehall Impact on local government Policy objectives Successes and failures Drawing on the transparency literature ( Hood, 2006 , 2010 ; Heald, 2012 ), we divided the objectives into two tiers. Greater transparency and accountability were considered the core...

...-tokyo.ac.jp . 12 12 2013 13 12 2013 © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] 2014 cross-boundary cancer studies the University of Tokyo university freedom of information public spaces Shunya Yoshimi...

... to information freedom of information human rights freedom of expression right to participate in public affairs The existence of a right of access to government information is increasingly accepted around the world, both at the domestic and international levels. At the domestic level, a right to information...

... access to leisure centres for children in care. The study employed an emerging social science research approach, the use of requests under the 2000 Freedom of Information Act, to investigate the topic. Requests were made in writing in 2011 to all 152 Directors in England listed on the Association...

... that underlies the book’s argument. It summarizes the empirical approach of the book, including the more than 75 stakeholder interviews conducted with stakeholders in industry, government, and civil society, as well at the approach for obtaining new government policy documents via freedom of information request...

... in 1995, a major workshop on RTI was held at LBSNAA on the subject. A long tug of war ensued as government came and fell till the bill was introduced in 2000. The Freedom of Information Bill passed in 2002 but was never notified. The grassroots efforts by MKSS in Rajasthan since 1990 played a major role...

... on Freedom of Information. This vision of international human rights also served the commercial interests of U.S. wire services seeking new international markets. But foreign nations were critical of the U.S. vision. They argued that freedom of information required some effort to ensure the quality...

...) The freedom of information challenge concerns the dilemma between trading public data for profit, and making data freely accessible to citizens. Agencies Braman Sandra Democracy Ethics Freedom of information FOI Intellectual property IP rights Open data OD Ownership issues Privacy Public Sector...

.... The development of science and technology wasn’t the only factor propelling the concept of information to greater prominence. The phrase “freedom of information,” seemingly fundamental to the practice of democracy, didn’t emerge as a compelling topic until the 1940s, when information (and so much else) was under...

... Secrecy Transparency Manning Bradley Metadata Privacy Snowden Edward Surveillance Credit cards Moynihan Commission Missing in action soldiers Social contract Hypertransparency Taxes Mass surveillance Government secrecy Moynihan Commission Freedom of Information Hypertransparency...

... Freedom of Information Act Douglas MacArthur Bill Clinton Presidential primaries Thomas Dooley Deliver Us from Evil Catholic Church Legion of Merit late-stage syphilis chronic syphilis St. Maritn’s Press Michael Denneny Barry Barbieri Guerneville California Peter Jennings Ross Perot Joint...

... under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). It offers a brief background on FOIA and the challenges of the FOIA process. The records, referred to as congressional correspondence logs, are described. The logs include records of communication from members of the US Senate and House of Representatives...

... on one of its specific features: access to government information, or freedom of information (FOI). It explains what is meant by FOI and argues that within the framework of internationally agreed concepts of human rights, FOI deserves to be listed with those rights. Not only is FOI instrumental...

... or to society more generally? Last, what normative view should we take of transparency? Transparency differs from other closely related concepts, particularly openness and freedom of information. What might have been discussed or labelled as accountability, openness, or due process a generation ago may now...

... and vexatious Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demands issued against the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in the months preceding. The hacker released a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents via e-mail. This chapter discusses the allegations and disinformation...

... was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Finally, given the extent to which deferred action has been applied using specific humanitarian criteria and operated as a benefit to the person who receives it, this chapter considers whether deferred action should be subject to notice and comment...