How far are we ready to go?IMMI & the global transparency movement

@calixteFSCONS 2010

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“Given enough eyeballs…”

The Nordics’ gift to democracy

Approaches to transparency

• Top-down vs. Bottom-up– Promises & limits of open gov, open data, FOI, etc.– Anon, WL, WikiCong, Tor, i2p, etc.

• The West vs. The REST– Issues with #netfreedom & #tech4transparency

• The 3rd wave & IMMI– Basic set of principles that can be used as a

benchmark– Parliaments & grassroots

The transparency shockwave

• Brunner, Gibson, Stephenson & us. • Then came… – … the collapse– … a meeting in Iceland– … IMMI: “Iceland will become the inverse of a tax

haven”• “Democratizing democracy” through freedom

of information

36 (+9) reasons not to open the data

The new cold war (us, uk, ca, au…)

Secrecy vs. Transparency

• “Tax haven’s aim is to make everything opaque. Our aim it to make everything transparent.” (Birgitta Jónsdóttir )

• Norway: tax returns posted online• Sweden: Freedom of Information law• Finland: Broadband law• Iceland: IMMI

IMMI 2.0: International Modern Media Initiative

• Italy, Scotland, South Africa, etc.• What about the Nordic countries?• My proposal: Dec. 2nd is already "Freedom of

Information Day” in Finland & Sweden• Why not use that day to hold IMMI workshops

in all Nordic countries? (with participation of network of like-minded organizations)

• Dec.1 (Reykjavik) to Dec.27-30 (Berlin)

#WeAreInternets