Open Government: a journal on Freedom of Information

Here’s a new open access journal to keep track of. The inaugural issue includes articles about the UK freedom of information act (which amazingly didn’t come into force until January, 2005!), and a conference report on the 3rd intl conference of information commissioners. One of the exciting things to come out of that conference was the “Declaration of Cancœn
Transparency and Accountability: A Commitment to Democracy” signed by a long list of NGOs. The PDF of the declaration is linked from another organization to track called Statewatch.

Congratulations on this new and exciting endeavor!

Scope:
¥ Freedom of Information legislation and information provision for citizens
¥ Comparative views of international freedom of information legislation
¥ Freedom of information legislation and the open government debate
¥ The impact of Freedom of Information on public administration
¥ Case studies from public authorities by FOI practioners
¥ Information Systems for managing records and FOI requests
¥ The relationship of Freedom of Information legislation and other access to information legislation

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2. SPARC Open Access Brochure
3. Govt Information Awareness Program
4. Electronic govt information
5. OECD to support open access to data!