Gareth Rees @_gareth
Transparency Programme Lead & Programmer | @mysociety / @whatdotheyknow / @cardiffrb / @_buildingbeauty 20/21 garethrees.co.uk Cardiff, UK Joined February 2009-
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🚨Reminder: CFOI invites both beginners and experienced requesters to our next online training course on Thursday 16th October 2025. Please see this link to secure your space cfoi.org.uk/2025/08/using-…
🔔Final Call 🔔 Last chance to book in for our webinar tomorrow – “A guide to making successful freedom of information request” Space is limited to first come first served, so if you haven’t yet booked your space make sure to book today! 🔗 Sign up now: tinyurl.com/WebinarFOI
As part of the 20 year celebrations we are holding our first webinar of 2025. If you are a member of the public, a campaigner or just someone want to access their information rights, this is the webinar for you. 🔗 Register now: tinyurl.com/WebinarFOI
THAT'S better. Adding height AND making London more gorgeous & interesting. Bravo to our friend @FTerryArchitect & Finchatton for improving London. No rules of economics or physics stops us making our streets more lovely - only modish malevolence & the curious concept of…
The first set of FOI stats for central govt since the general election has been published today and shows a similar pattern under Labour to the FOI performance of the Conservative govt - which is not surprising.
A charity donation makes a great Christmas gift, and if you care about democracy, transparency, community & climate, we'll put it to very good use. mysociety.org/donate/?utm_so… #Thankyou
Freedom of information doesn't just require public bodies to respond to the requests they receive - they also have to publish information, letting people access it directly. Some examples below of news stories from across the UK which arose from published information. 👇
Freedom of information doesn't just require public bodies to respond to the requests they receive - they also have to publish information, letting people access it directly. Some examples below of news stories from across the UK which arose from published information. 👇
Top tips on data visualisation! If you're interested in this, you might also like how you can use data visualisation from FOI data to tell some really compelling stories mysociety.org/2024/04/03/acc…
Top tips on data visualisation! If you're interested in this, you might also like how you can use data visualisation from FOI data to tell some really compelling stories mysociety.org/2024/04/03/acc…
I’ve at last got around to setting up a blog to about UK transparency law. It is a crucial democratic safeguard, but it is imperfect, treated with distain by many in government, and often badly enforced. You can read all about it on Relight My FOIA relightmyfoia.blog
.@TBIJ is looking for a data journalist with in-depth experience of scraping to work on an ongoing investigation. If you're interested, or can suggest someone who might be, please drop me a DM
Our friends at @TheBristolCable are 90% to their fundraising target, which will unlock a crucial bonus grant of £40,000. They do a lot of valuable journalism - support them via this link. thebristolcable.org/join/?joinbutt…
Our Alaveteli software which helps people run FOI sites all over the world - including our own @WhatDoTheyKnow - has enjoyed a series of recent improvements. Here's the first - more to follow! mysociety.org/2024/07/09/new…
It's great that our public feed of information requested from authorities has helped with this analysis. FOI helps uncover emergent themes in what people need information about. Looking forward to seeing what comes out of authorities digging a layer deeper into each theme.
It's great that our public feed of information requested from authorities has helped with this analysis. FOI helps uncover emergent themes in what people need information about. Looking forward to seeing what comes out of authorities digging a layer deeper into each theme.
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A great opportunity from @mySociety for journalism students and journalists: 💪 Help hold power to account 🧠 Build skills and knowledge 🤩 Valuable experience to add to a CV mysociety.org/democracy/who-…
Access to information is crucial for journalism. Yet, Member States and the EU itself handle access to information very diversely (and sometimes rather opaque). VIKTORIA KRAETZIG (@Viktoriasophiee) and NEUS VIDAL-MARTI (@neusvidal) with a proposal: verfassungsblog.de/why-europe-nee…
NEWS This government is the most secretive ever... FACT Transparency plummets to new low. @PeterKGeoghegan has found that just 34% of resolvable FOI requests were granted in full in 2023, the lowest since records began They've trashed Nolan Principles in every conceivable way
NEWS This government is the most secretive ever... FACT Transparency plummets to new low. @PeterKGeoghegan has found that just 34% of resolvable FOI requests were granted in full in 2023, the lowest since records began They've trashed Nolan Principles in every conceivable way
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