This blog will report and comment on international developments in Freedom of Information (FOI) legislations and systems.
I am a lecturer and researcher in journalism at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia.
FOI has the potential to be a very potent tool to keep politicians and government officials accountable. In short FOI is a law, or a set of laws, that allows the public to request that government agencies hand over information that they hold. In some countries, very few, FOI laws also applies to the private sector. For more information on FOI and to view my research, please visit my research homepage.
Tomorrow I’m off to Sweden for a week of research and between July 20-25, I’ll participate in the ‘Media and Global and Divides’ conference in Stockholm. I’ll finish the paper that I’m presenting during the next week. I’ll tell you more about it when I’m finished.
Johan
