basically it says that every information or data that the state produces belongs to the citizen

The FOI law in Hungary is quite a progressive one

but the problem is that it has been amended in 2013

The FOI requests that are vexatious

can be denied by the authority.

The access to information law that was passed in Rwanda in 2013

is actually very strong, compared to what I've been hearing this morning

at AlaveteliCon, so

it requests that people provide the information in three days

maximum

Information officers can say that it's going to take a little bit longer, but that only buys them another week.

So, three days for everyone in the public

two days if you're a journalist

One day if someone's life or liberty are at risk.

In Australia, we're lucky to have quite good FOI laws

but they're disastrously not used, and

so we created RightToKnow to make people more aware of their FOI rights

and hopefully to get them to start making requests

which Australians typically don't do.

So, anyone has the right to access information that public authorities hold

and that's in the form of documents

So, whilst you can't ask for information, you can ask for any document that they hold currently.