{"id":2544,"date":"2016-05-03T09:08:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T09:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:57","slug":"global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/05\/03\/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying\/","title":{"rendered":"Global State of Freedom of Information is \u2018worrying\u2019&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">&#8230;according to the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/opendatabarometer.org\/3rdEdition\/report\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">annual Open Data Barometer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> from the World Wide Web Foundation.\u00a0 It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have &#8216;reasonably strong&#8217; laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">For more detailed FOI statistics for the UK see the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/517909\/freedom-of-information-statistics-2015-Q4-annual__1_.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">annual report from the Cabinet Office which has breakdowns by individual department.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation.\u00a0 It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have &#8216;reasonably strong&#8217; laws. For more detailed FOI statistics for the UK see the annual report from the Cabinet Office which has breakdowns by individual department. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[309],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-freedom-of-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2545,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}