Hi, I think compiling some stats would be very useful.
You can list all requests that have at some point been marked for internal review with the following query: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/search/status:internal_review If you can do a bit of research I am sure the WDTK team would love to help analyse and publicise it. I'll post about it on the Alaveteli blog as well. Thanks, Seb On 20 December 2011 10:13, Colm Howard-Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > What might be interesting is also to compile some stats on the reasons for > refusal for requests made through WDTK. The FOIA is narrow as we know and in > my experience (I am both someone who has managed a Public Liaison Unit for a > public body, and a passionate FOI-er) many people don't understand what is > and isn't subject to it. > > I think the point bring made below is not a criticism on WDTK for making the > process easier, but perhaps that it doesn't assist understanding of the > limits of the act. > > I'd be willing to carry out this research... > > On 20 Dec 2011, at 09:56, Sam Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I wonder if it's worth seeing if we can directly address that point with >> fact/data somehow. >> >> For people who make an internal review request in $time_period, could we >> contact them a few days later and ask whether they would still have made >> that request after a couple of days space for a-non-instant-response? >> >> Not that facts will help a huge amount I suspect, but they're nice to have. >> >> >> Sam >> >> On 19 Dec 2011, at 17:13, Kristina Glushkova wrote: >> >>> Hi Tom, >>> >>> Very interesting indeed, thanks for sharing. Here's a good quote >>> summarising, I suspect, the views of many FOI responders on WDTK actually >>> achieving its goals: >>> >>> "A few respondents also speculated that individuals now realise just how >>> easy it is to submit an FOI request, citing the website >>> “WhatDoTheyKnow.com”: “It’s very easy for people to make requests to us, >>> because all you have to do now is use WhatDoTheyKnow.com. At least >>> [before] they’d have to type an email or write a letter to us. Now all >>> they do is put their information in and it sends it directly to us. I don’t >>> think that’s a bad thing, I just think that it’s made it easier and made >>> people lazier. For example, as soon as we refuse a request from >>> WhatDoTheyKnow.com >>> quite often we’ll receive a request for an internal review very quickly >>> because all they need to do is push a button to say I want this to go to >>> internal review”. 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