This is a freedom of information video for Right to Know Week 2010. Freedom of information is so new in our world history that we need to stretch our freedom of information imaginations. What better way to stretch the imagination than with music videos?

 

A Right to Know/Freedom of Information Week Video (large file, 30MB)

For Canadian Campus and Community Radio Stations

                                          

General Public Education

The RTI truck makes a stop in Hiware Bazar, a town in Ahmednagar District, India.

Public Servant Education into Freedom of Information

 

To broaden our understanding of freedom of information awards and recognition ceremonies, let's study some:

 

 

British Columbia, Canada

BC's Freedom of Information and Privacy Association celebates 5th birthday of FOI request for BC Government's $300 contract with IBM

 

 

 

 

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"An investigation by the federal information commissioner has concluded there is evidence National Gallery officials broke the law in 2008 by destroying e-mails sought in an Access to Information request.

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FreedomInfo.org
Democracy Watch
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
BC's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Assocation

Does Cowbell = Freedom of Information?

Find the original skit if you can...

With freedom of information some things are fairly obvious, but worth restating.
 

India has the Right to Information (RTI) Act. In 2009, civil servant Usha Rani was nominated for a National Right to Information Award.
"'I have always felt that RTI has come as a boon for the well-meaning bureaucrats. They are the bureaucrats who want to apply the law and resent any political interference. They now have RTI to mobilize social pressure against those who want to corrupt the system,' says Rani."