Tag: Freedom of Information

  • The BBC, lobbying and open government

    Back in May 2008, Martin Rosenbaum at the BBC Freedom of Information blog asked: What do business and government say to each other? Many people want to know, some of them hoped that a freedom of information law would help them find out. Well, yes indeed. But what about the BBC itself?

  • Open Justice

    My contribution to the Government website with suggestions for opening up data is here. Probably not quite what they had in mind…

  • Freedom of Information: numerical junk via the BBC

    Thanks to a Freedom of Information request through great new site whatdotheyknow.com, you can get a rough idea of which UK ‘nation’ paid what for the BBC, as of March 31, 2008. It’s pretty precise: