David, I believe it was in 1772, six years after the Sweden passed the worlds first FOI law.? King Gustav III was behind it. With a silver tongue he gained absolute control over parliament and became one of Europe's Enlightened Despots. Writing in 1778 to the France?s Countess of Boufflers, Gustav wrote: ?There are certain parties which seek to gain too great an ascendancy over the others and which must be repressed?. with us it is democracy which seeks to gain the upper hand and all my efforts are aimed at reestablishing the old high nobility?
Does anyone know of historians who have written on the events leading to the restoration of Swedish parliament in 1809? Mark ________________________________ From: David Goldberg <[email protected]> To: Mark Weiler <mweiler at alumni.sfu.ca> Cc: "Worthy, Ben" <b.worthy at ucl.ac.uk>; Foianet Net <foianet at foiadvocates.info> Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 1:32:30 AM Subject: Re: [foianet] FOI Publication Schemes Dear all, The world's first FOI law was premised on the notion of imposing a duty on authorities (including courts) to publish official information, documents etc and giving people a right to make copies of them. Who knows when the notion of the "individual requester" model was first mooted? Best wishes, David On 8 December 2011 09:26, Mark Weiler <mweiler at alumni.sfu.ca> wrote: > I know here in British Columbia (BC) Canada our provincial FOI law has had > "proactive disclosure scheme" since 1992.? So, pre-Internet. > > I'd be interested to know more about if "proactive schemes" are working as > intended.? So, (a) what are their goals in measurable terms? and (b), have > there been evaluations of them? > > > ________________________________ > From: "Worthy, Ben" <b.worthy at ucl.ac.uk> > To: 'Mark Weiler' <mweiler at alumni.sfu.ca> > Cc: 'Foianet Net' <foianet at foiadvocates.info> > Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 12:37:29 AM > Subject: RE: [foianet] FOI Publication Schemes > > Dear Mark, > > They were (I think) a pre-information revolution idea to have an index of > documents so people wouldn?t make requests but would first look at what an > authority holds. Our studies of central government and local government in > the UK found that few members of the public use them because they are (a) > unwieldy (b) have been superseded by the internet search engine. > Consequently lots of authorities do not put a great deal of effort into up > keeping them-they prefer to just put things onto the website. The UK PS > schemes were recently revised and simplified-I don?t know what effect this > has had. > > Let me know if you want to see some of our research. > > Ben Worthy > > UCL > > From: foianet-bounces at lists.foiadvocates.info > [mailto:foianet-bounces at lists.foiadvocates.info] On Behalf Of Mark Weiler > Sent: 07 December 2011 21:07 > > To: Foianet Net > Subject: [foianet] FOI Publication Schemes > > I notice that several FOI laws have "publication schemes" which define > classes of documents that a public institution's proactively makes available > (e.g., posting on-line). > > Can anyone describe this feature of FOI legislation?? Where did it begin? > Are there places where it is working particularly well? Any challenges with > it? > > Thank you, > > Mark Weiler > > -- "Ye canna get leave tae thrive for thrang", A Ramsay (ed) A collection of Scots Proverbs (1736)
