Information wants to be free
THE new frontier in government accountability is not faster responses to information requests. It is an era of open data in which government departments put their information online in usable, searchable formats. That would eliminate the need for many people to file individual FOIA requests -- and for agencies to undertake the labor-intensive process of answering them.
BUSINESS DAY
How to Break an Information Bottleneck ?
By NATASHA SINGER
Published: June 25, 2011
Here's a pre-emptive way to shrink the backlog of requests under the Freedom of Information Act: put more information online from the get-go.