Hi there, Today the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency are co-launching a petition endorsed by a group of transparency and civil society organisations, asking the UK government to rewrite the lobbying bill to give citizens a proper register of lobbyists in the UK.
Read the blog post here: http://blog.okfn.org/2013/12/09/sign-our-petition-asking-the-uk-government-to-stop-secret-corporate-lobbying/ Sign the petition here: http://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/secretlobbying It is a crucial moment for lobbying transparency in the UK, as the government is passing a Lobbying Bill full of toothless proposals that will let coroporate lobbyists off the hook, whilst being framed as a victory for open government. We believe tha citizens should be able to see who is influencing their governments If you're interested in improving lobbying transparency in your country, join the global lobbying transparency working group<http://blog.okfn.org/2013/10/29/new-lobbying-transparency-working-group-from-the-open-knowledge-foundation-and-the-sunlight-foundation/>, which we run together with Sunlight Foundation: Please share far and wide! Thanks, Theodora -- * Theodora MiddletonPress Officer | skype: theodora.middleton The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/> Empowering through Open Knowledge http://okfn.org/ <http://okfn.org/> | @okfn <http://twitter.com/OKFN> | OKF on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork> | Blog <http://blog.okfn.org/> | Newsletter <http://okfn.org/about/newsletter>*
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