On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:57:33PM +0100, Owen Blacker wrote: > Ignore that they've got the headings the wrong way round, but it's nice to > see that transparency is suitably high-profile.
Others at the Saturday session commented on that, too. > Now we just need to hold them to these lofty ideals... :-) There seems an actual commitment to deliver these objectives. Certainly, in the area I have the most experience with at the moment (transparency around the Extractives industry; #followthedata), I genuinely (and remember how jaded and cynical I am) think things might happen. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "10 Downing Street" <[email protected]> > The Declaration sets out governments’ responsibilities to make proper > rules and promote good governance to increase transparency, open up trade > and reduce corporate tax evasion. > - Empower people to hold governments and companies to account > - Agree to an Open Data > Charter<http://number10.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7739f529e5d9bdba33423bc94&id=64de9b513d&e=d0ed2099d0>to > make budget data and other government information public in an easily > accessible way. > - Common global reporting standards to make oil, gas and mining > companies payments to governments more transparent Work on this has already started. -- "Another sport which wastes unlimited time is Comma-hunting." -- Francis Cornford _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
