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New FOIAnet Steering Committee Elected |
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A new Steering Committee for the FOIAnet has been elected after a week of voting by FOIAnet member organisations. The results were announced on Monday 26th July at 6pm and all elected members have accepted their seats on the committee. A new chair has not yet been decided because of a tie between the two top candidates, Toby Mendel and Eduardo Bertoni. The first meeting of the FOIAnet will be via conference call in September when the committee will elect a new chair and share their ideas for the developent of the FOIAnet.
The new committee members are:
Eduardo Bertoni, Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, Argentina Toby Mendel, Centre for Law and Democracy, Canada Gergana Jouleva, Access to Information Programme, Bulgaria Andrea Figari, Transparency International, Germany Emilene Martínez, MoralesNational Security Archive, Mexico Codru Vrabie, Advocacy Academy, Romania Shushan Doydoyan, Freedom of Information Center of Armenia, Armenia
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Última actualización el Miércoles, 28 de Julio de 2010 13:42 |
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Trece candidatos en las eleciones de FOIAnet |
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Acaba de finalizar la selección de nominados para el próximo Comité de Dirección de FOIAnet. Trece personas pertenecientes a organizaciones de FOIAnet se han postulado para ayudar a dirigir la red durante la próxima etapa y atender con ello las necesidades de sus miembros. Las organizaciones miembro tendrán ahora una semana, del lunes 19 al lunes 26 de Julio, para votar por aquellas personas que mejor asistirán a todos los defensores de la libertad de información que formamos esta red.
El Comité de Dirección de FOIAnet se compone de siete miembros. Por lo tanto, cada organización podrá votar por siete de los nominados. El nominado que reciba más votos se convertirá en el nuevo Presidente del Comité de Dirección.
Más abajo encontrarán una lista de los nominados en la que, cliqueando sobre cada uno de los nombres, se abrirá una página con su fotografía y declaración de motivos.
1. Andrea Figari
2. Codru Vrabie
3. Eduardo Bertoni
4. Emilene Martínez Morales
5. Fola Adeleke
6. Gergana Jouleva
7. Gilbert Sendugwa
8. Said Essoulami
9. Sharon Polsky
10. Shushan Doydoyan
11. Sohini Paul
12. Taranath Dahal
13. Toby Mendel
Ver aquí el documento con todos los detalles de las elecciones 
Ver aquí los miembros del ultimo Comité de Dirección (inglés)  |
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Última actualización el Lunes, 19 de Julio de 2010 12:35 |
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El viernes 2 de Julio comenzará el periodo de nominaciones para las elecciones para el nuevo Comité de Dirección de FOIAnet. El Comité de Dirección de FOIAnet supervisa la gestión y el desarrollo de FOIAnet. Es formado por siete individuos de nuestras organizaciones miembros, de las cuales una persona será el Presidente/la Presidenta.
El Cronograma para las elecciones es el siguiente:
1) Nominaciones para el Comité de Dirección – abren el 2 de Julio, fecha límite el Jueves 15 de julio 2010 2) La votación comenzará el lunes 19 de julio 2010, y acabará el 26 de julio 3) El nuevo Comité de Dirección se anunciará el martes 27 de julio – primera llamada de conferencia por Skype prevista para comienzos de septiembre 2010.
Para más información sobre las elecciones, lee el documento detallado sobre las mismas.
Documento detallada de las elecciones  |
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Última actualización el Viernes, 02 de Julio de 2010 10:03 |
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The Philippines: Slow Progress to an FOI Law |
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Campaigners have been trying to get an FOI law passed in the Philippines for some 14 years, so far without success. On Monday, 24 May 2010, they came tantalisingly close. A progressive bill had gone through all but one of the complex steps towards being adopted, and awaited only final ratification by the House of Representatives, and then signature into law by the President (it had already received final ratification by the Senate and over 180 of the 242 members of the House had already voted in favour of a similar bill). Unfortunately, the Speaker of the House, Prospero Nograles, did not allow a vote to proceed on Monday. Hope that the document would be passed on 31 May was also scotched, due to a lack of quorum in the House. The incoming (15th) Congress will have to start the legislative process again from the beginning.
The Philippines has a constitutional guarantee of the right to information, which has been used to some effect to gain access to information held by public bodies. But full enjoyment of this right, as in other countries, depends on the adoption of right to information legislation. An intense advocacy campaign has been waged over the last few months in the Philippines, in an effort to finally get the law passed. As part of the final push for adoption, 67 organisations and 21 individuals, mostly members of foianet or IFEX, signed a letter urging the House to pass the bill into law. The letter gained widespread coverage in the mainstream Philippine media.
Letter urging government to pass a law in the Philipine government
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Última actualización el Miércoles, 23 de Junio de 2010 15:45 |
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Action Plan for Right to Information in Africa |
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Participants from the African Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information today released the Regional Findings and Plan of Action to advance the right in Africa. The conference found that while access to information is a fundamental human right, political and institutional constraints in Africa have limited the opportunities to exercise the right. Taking into account the realities of Africa, the regional document serves as an annex to the global Atlanta Declaration and Plan of Action.
"Facing historical and unique challenges, African nations have found it particularly difficult to advance the right of access to information," said former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who chaired the opening day of the conference that took place Feb. 7-9, 2010, in Accra, Ghana. "Unlike in other regions of the world, there has not been a wave of countries passing and implementing access to information laws. In Africa, only five countries have passed laws, and this number includes Zimbabwe, which many have argued uses its law to repress rather than provide information."
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Última actualización el Lunes, 08 de Marzo de 2010 13:29 |
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