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10th Open Data Ireland Meetup

Originally posted by Dominic Byrne here The 10th Open Data Ireland Meetup took place on Thursday 24th October in a new venue at TCube, Castle Street, Dublin. The theme of this meetup was “The Way Forward for Open Data in Ireland”. Tweets from the meetup have been storified at http://storify.com/Fingal/10th-open-data-ireland-meetup/ Denis Parfenov @prfnv started off our […]

Statement re: last minute amendments to FOI Bill 2013 in Ireland

Open Knowledge Foundation Ireland strongly oppose the government’s last minute amendments to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill 2013 involving an additional charge for multifaceted FOI requests.   Restoring FOI legislation to its pre-2003 form was one of the key commitments of the current government[1].  This late-stage legislative amendment instead compounds the damage done by […]