The UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has a press release titled: ICO takes tougher approach to FOI enforcement.
The press release states:
“Today the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that public authorities will face if they routinely fail to meet the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR). Organisations will face action...
The UK National Archives (TNA) has published a news item titled: Changes to the information management web pages. The news item relates in part to the transfer of public sector information policy and regulation content from the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) web site that is in the process of being closed down to the National Archives web site.
The...
The presentation of the International Forum of Digital Content, FICOD 2010, was announced at the auditorium of the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Information Society in Madrid on the 23rd June 2010.
It was announced that FICOD 2010 will take place in Madrid from the 16th to the 18th November 2010.
The...
MICUS Management Consulting has announced the completion of a study commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology (BMWI). An English shorten version of the study titled: has been published. (16 pages, Date: May 2010).
The report makes 11 recommendations (reference page 16):
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Warsaw: 14 July 2010
Indications are that there is movement by the Polish Government in responding to the European Commission’s recent action in referring Poland to court for incorrect transposition of the European Union Directive 2003/98/EC (Dyrektywa 2003/98/WE) on the re-use of public sector information.
The Polish Ministry of Interior and Administration has...
The European Commission (EC) has published a short announcement reminding all public sector information stakeholders that the review of Directive 2003/98/EC is in preparation and will shortly commence with a public consultation.
The announcement states:
“In the...
The re-use of public sector information was on the agenda of the 18th meeting of the Hong Kong Digital 21 Strategy Advisory Committee (D21SAC) that was held on the 29th April 2010.
Paper no. 4/2010 (7 pages) titled:...
The Hong Kong network of knowledge entrepreneurs web site Knowledge Dialogues has announced that they’re main research themes for 2010: Intellectual Capital of Public Sector Information.
The announcement states:
How can we create economic value from Public Sector Information?...
The Official Journal of the European Union has published the Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on the Internet of Things and reuse of Public Sector Information.
The Committee of the Regions opinion states:
“Re-use of PSI Directive
12. points out that, in order to develop a market for the...
