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Civil society Implementation

AP tests freedom of information laws worldwide

Reporters evaluate regulations in 105 countries and EU.

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Research

Transatlantic Conference on Transparency Research 2012: Call for papers

On 7-9 June 2012, the second Transatlantic Conference on Transparency Research will be held at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

The Utrecht School of Governance, in which the Open Government in the EU research team is based, will host the conference. A call for papers has now gone out. The deadline for proposals is 1 December 2011. For more information about paper submission, and general information about the conference, please visit the conference website.

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Finally, the First Global Conference on Transparency Research

On 19 and 20 May 2011, the first Global Conference on Transparency Research was held at Rutgers University, Newark, USA.

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Dutch Access to Documents (WOB) Controversy

Not only in the EU is a debate (or should we say, battle) still ongoing over the meaning and usefulness of transparency. Also in the Netherlands has a member of government sought to reopen a fundamental discussion on the current WOB-regime.