Right to Know Day around the world - Czech Republic

Organizer: Open Society, p.b.a
Date: September 27, 2007
Event: "Open x Closed" competition

The Open Society, p.b.a have organized in The Czech Republic a competition named „Open x Closed“ - for the biggest „friend“ and „enemy“ of the access to information and awareness of public administratives among the public administration authorities in Czech republic.

This competition enabled to citizens and to non-profit organizations to make visible those government and self-government bodies which provide information perfectly and those which - according to their opinion - break the Access to Information Act. The independent assessing commission was composed with regard to the wide scope of the area – there was an MP, an official of the Ministry of the Interior, the director Transparency International CZ, the Ombudsman?s agent, an inspector of Data Protection, both a lawyer from a non-profit organization and a commercial attorney, a journalist.

The results of fifth year of competition will be published and the prizes will be given on Friday, 27th September 2007 on the press conference in the famous club „Wonderfull Losts“.

Workshop for public officials leaded by Dan Gordon, who is the deputy general counsel of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, will be organized a week before Right to Know Day.