How Media Can Involve the Public to OGP Processes: A Seminar in Ukraine
Submitted by Inna Kremen on 20 March, 2013 - 15:19On March 13-15, Tatyana Tolsteneva, FIF Development Manager, took part in a seminar How Can Media Help to Involve Citizens in OGP Processes? organized in Kiev by Transparency International – Ukraine.
Participation in a Webinar on E-Petitions
Submitted by Inna Kremen on 20 March, 2013 - 14:33On March 19, Tatyana Tolsteneva, FIF Development Manager, took part in a webinar organized within OGP Networking Mechanism and dedicated to e-petitions.
Specificities on e-petition mechanism in various countries were discussed. Experts from the UK and the US shared their views on e-petition efficiency based on globally recognized experience of their countries.
Also, e-petition efficiency evaluation aspects were discussed.
Interaction Force: How Federal Executive Government Bodies' Websites Change within Monitoring
Submitted by Inna Kremen on 6 March, 2013 - 19:41Our monitoring of official websites' informational openness is surely aimed not only to study current state of affairs. Each monitoring cycle allows government bodies' officials to improve their website contents and quality, and sometimes to achieve practical perfection. This is why a monitoring cycle includes an online interaction period following initial assessment.
One More Evasive Definition by the Constitutional Court
Submitted by Inna Kremen on 6 March, 2013 - 18:11On March 2, 2013, the official website of the Constitutional Court of Russia published the Court's definition on FIF lawyers' application against the Federal Law On the Procedure for Reviewing Applications from Citizens of the Russian Federation. We contested Article 5, Paragraph 2 of that law since it allows government bodies to deny a citizen of access to materials of inspections held upon his/her request if the materials in question touch rights of third parties.
Expert and Public Discussion of the Standard for Openness of Federal Executive Government Bodies' Activities
Submitted by Inna Kremen on 5 March, 2013 - 11:05On March 1, an expert/public discussion (organized within the Open Government) of draft Standard for openness of federal executive government bodies' activities took place in Moscow.
Conference in the Institute of State and Law
Submitted by Inna Kremen on 4 March, 2013 - 17:33On March 1, a conference Democratic Institutions in the Conditions of Informational Society Development organized by the Institute of State and Law (Russian Academy of Sciences) took part in Moscow. It was dedicated to key problems in the information law field.
Presentation of the British Embassy's Prosperity Fund Program in Russia
Submitted by Inna Kremen on 1 March, 2013 - 17:11On February 28, Tatyana Tolsteneva, FIF Development Manager, attended a presentation of the British Embassy's Prosperity Fund in Russia.
The presentation covered the Fund priorities for 2013-2014, guidelines for competition applicants, and key aspects of implementation of socially significant programs supported by the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Russia.
We are always open to cooperation
The methodology developed by Freedom of information Foundation for monitoring official websites is applicable widely. It is convenient, efficient and can be used for research in various fields. We are interested in cooperation with different governmental and non-government entities in various countries in order to extend the monitoring practice, including possible joint comparative researches.
