The role of international lawmakers and their respective influence on national legislation on information access

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W. Keim

Human right of access to information

Contence

lAccess to Information, Openness, RTI, FOI, RTK

lHistory: International, Baltic Sea, quantitative evaluation

lGermany: Questions, NIS report

lHuman Right: UN, Council of Europe

lHistory: Germany before 1997: proposals

lLaws in Germany 1998-2008

lTransition of International Treaties

lCourt Decisions: International, Germany

lFreedom of Information Art. 5 Basic Law

lPlayers, Participants.

lNorway: Electronic Public Records

lWhat Can be Done? What to Do?

lWhen will these 5 länder follow?


	Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.
	A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.

	-- James Madison –