Better in Belfast
As well as being day 1001 of freedom of information in the UK, today is also international 'Right to Know Day'.
The Information Commissioner Richard Thomas has marked today by calling on public authorities to release more information proactively about their work.
In this field the Commissioner's office does seem to live up to its own standards, publishing on its website an impressive range of minutes of internal committee meetings.
For example, you can learn from the minutes of a management meeting in June that ICO staff find there is a 'tangible difference in attitude between Northern Ireland public authorities and mainland UK ones, with the NI authorities being more co-operative'.
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