Archive for 'foi'
Birmingham’s new website: how late? how much?
I don't usually cover local government issues here - I leave that to other people. But I'll make an exception for the news that Birmingham City Council is poised to launch a new website.
It was originally scheduled to launch in March 2006, at a cost of £580,000. It is now set to launch in August [...]
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McBride: a scandal for the internet age
So Damian McBride appears to have been taken down by the blogger he was considering trying to emulate.
It's being reported that McBride's emails were sent from his official Downing Street email account. If so, that's a naive error to have made: partly because it leaves him open to (valid) accusations of misusing public resources, and [...]
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The Obama memoranda
It's well worth reading the two memoranda issued by President Obama yesterday, on - ironically, given yesterday's events - FOI and transparency. There's nothing about them on the White House website (???), so I'm grateful to this Washington Post blog.
On Freedom of Information:
In our democracy, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which encourages accountability through [...]
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Let freedom of information ring
It would appear that the plan to exempt MPs and Lords from Freedom Of Information provisions has been ditched. The Mail's Benedict Brogan is trying to unpick what just happened:
Gordon Brown claims that Tories have pulled out of a cross-party deal to introduce the change. The suggestion from No10 is that up until yesterday the [...]
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