British Library Wi-Fi Access
Apr 18, 2005 Articles, Campaigns, Request Diary
The British Library refused to show me the contract under which they provide wireless internet services, until I filed a Freedom of Information request. The story was covered by Information World Review.
There is considerable community interest in providing free internet access using cheap wireless technology – groups such as consume.net and Wireless London are active [...]
New sections added
Apr 13, 2005 Request Diary
The YRTK website has been updated to include a newly revised version of Secret Squirrel. It lists my requests by public authority. The list is far from complete – there are many requests that I have yet to upload – but in time everything will be on here. The log lists:
My original FOI/EIR requests
Response from [...]
England Farm Subsidies Online
Apr 8, 2005 Campaigns, Environment
The Excel spreadsheets showing the amount and distribution of farm subsidies in England are now available to download from the freedominfo.org website. You can read about the farm subsidies in earlier posts, including my article for the Independent.
http://www.freedominfo.org/case/cap/index.htm
FOI request: Minutes from BBC Governor’s meetings post-Hutton
Apr 7, 2005 Central Government, Request Diary
I made a request to the BBC for all minutes from meetings held by the BBC Board of Governors during the time period January 16-31, 2004. This was the period after the Hutton report when the chairman, Gavin Davis and Greg Dyke, the director general of the BBC, resigned.
Read the full BBC response [...]
Article: Sunshine Week
Apr 4, 2005 Articles, FOI in the news
In Sunshine Week, US papers test FOI laws and uphold the public’s ‘right to know’. Heather Brooke reports
Information is power
Monday April 4, 2005
The Guardian
The first national “Sunshine Week” has just come to an end in the US – seven days in which newspapers across the country published stories, columns and cartoons about [...]
Who is subject to FOI?
Apr 1, 2005 Access Laws, Book Updates
The Department for Constitutional Affairs added a new webpage today that lists all the bodies subject to the Freedom of Information law.
http://www.foi.gov.uk/coverage.htm
The website includes detail on:
Who is subject to the Freedom of Information Act?
How to search this list
An online guide to coverage
Schedule 1 – Public Authorities (this is the latest complete listing of [...]
