Covering Politics and Politicians
Written the 13. November 2009 by Nils Mulvad New way of following the political process and the individual politicians are emerging. We see different business models, and this will grow in the coming years. We see scraping of all kind of data from parliaments websites and politicians blogs and pages on Facebook and Twitter etc. […]
New law: Hiding political decisions in Denmark
Written the 16. November 2009 by Nils Mulvad Easier access to databases, but a total step back on access to the political decision process, is the main content in a proposal for a new law on Freedom of Information in Denmark. The law was proposed Wednesday the 11th of November 2009 and today – Monday […]
In-depth story on European farm subsidies in International Herald Tribune
Written 17. July 2009 by Nils Mulvad The International Herald Tribune today have an in-depth story on the structure of European farm subsidies. Their story is based on the data published by the 27 member states of EU and extracted by Farmsubsidy.org. Kaas & Mulvad do the extraction and are responsible for data gathering and […]
Situation in Denmark for getting electronic data
Written 24. Nov 2009 by Nils Mulvad 1. After 7 year we this month got a proposal for a new law on FOI with good access to data and bad with new rules hiding the political process. 2. Organizing the work in Åbenhedstinget. 3. Good cooperation with local and regional authorities – hard fights with […]