Right to Know Day around the world - United Kingdom

1. Organizer: Information Commissioner's Office in the UK
Event: Publication Scheme Development and Maintenance Initiative
Date: September, 2006

Description: The aims of this initiative are twofold.

Firstly to work with Public bodies to encourage a comprehensive inclusion of information across each sector thereby creating more consistency across schemes for, clarification for public bodies as to what information should proactively be disseminated and also reducing the bureaucracy surrounding the approval of schemes.

Secondly to move public sector thinking away from promoting the "publication scheme" and ‘classes’ of information, to promoting access to information, and clearly stating what information is routinely published and readily available thereby enlightening a wider range of users to the information that can be accessed without the need for a request.

Links: http://www.ico.gov.uk/

2. Organizer: My Society
Event: Development of a FOI archive
Date: September 27, 2006

My Society have announced their next project will be to develop an FOI archive: “the Freedom of Information Filer and Archive; a searchable, readable, googlable user-created archive of FOI requests and their responses.”

See: http://www.mysociety.org/2006/09/27/the-mysociety-call-for-proposals-the-winner-and-runners-up/

4. Organizer: Scottish Information Commissioner
Event: Press release
Date: September 27, 2006

International Right to Know Day: Scottish Information Commissioner says ‘Freedom of Information a success in Scotland.’