data.gov.hr – bull’s eye or platitudes about the ‘public state’?

Imagine an online one stop shop containing all of the Government’s publicly available data, providing visualizations of datasets that are crucial to transparency, such as the structural organization of every governmental department, and serving as a showcase of excellent applications made by citizens themselves using public data. In addition, this website contains additional information on…

“We would not back out of our demand for a referendum”

The leader of a civil society group heading a campaign against the government’s plan to lease motorways, unionist Mijat Stanic, on Friday welcomed the government’s decision to back down from this idea, adding that the group would not back out of their demand for a referendum as they wanted to ban leasing motorways by law.…

Join the Campaign for Transparency of Media Ownership

epa03702567 Chinese artist Liu Bolin stands painted in front of a wall with different magazines in the Kunstverein (art association) in Ludwigsburg, Germany, 15 May 2013. In his art works he blends his person with the background. He was painted by students of the art academy Stuttgart. EPA/BERND WEISSBROD

In only 2 out of 20 countries analysed is it possible to know who really owns the media and in 10 out of 20 countries not even the media regulators know who really owns the print media and for online media this figure drops to 6. So Access Info Europe is opening for signature the…

„SEC deliberately designed to be passive and cater to party interests“

Instead of electing independent, non-partisan experts with experience in administrating elections to the State Electoral Commission (SEC) in order to make it a truly proactive body, the Parliament has merely voted in “fresh” not-entirely-partisan persons, missing a crucial opportunity to strengthen the role and public image of the SEC – this was the message sent…