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New RTI Legislation Rating Methodology Launched
29 September 2010: A new tool for evaluating and comparing national right to information frameworks was launched today by Access Info Europe (Madrid, Spain) and the Centre for Law and Democracy (Halifax, Canada) as part of activities to mark the week of International Right to Know Day (28 September).
Transparency and Extractive Industries
How to Recuperate Uncollected African Tax Revenues
Bishop Louis Portella-Mbuyu (Congo-Brazzaville)
International donors, meeting in New York to review the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 20-22 September, are looking at urgently needed funds for development. Currently, large sums of money flow out of the African continent illicitly. This money is pocketed by African elites and transnational companies and disappears in secret (often European) bank accounts. The EU could contribute to recuperating these uncollected tax revenues. The European Commission is currently reviewing the EU Transparency Regulation (the TOD Directive). There is increasing pressure (including from CIDSE) to ensure that this legislation will include a requirement for companies registered or active in the EU -including those in the extractive sector- to become transparent about their operations in every developing country they operate in.
A Principled Look at Open Data
From Moses to James Madison to David Letterman, important ideas come in lists of ten, as do these principles for opening up government information.[1] The list isn’t new: my colleague John Wonderlich wrote about “themes for legislative information publication” in February 2007, and eight open government data principles emerged from a conference organized by internet oracle Carl Malamud and technology publisher Tim O’Reilly in December 2007.[2]However, we have refreshed the principles, expanded upon them, and added details.
European Commission report on public document access
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