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Dostup do Pravdy: the secret of FOI success

Street view of Lviv in Ukraine, showing many cables across the sky between historic buildings. Image by Juanedc.com

1st April 2016 by Myfanwy

Last week, Ukrainian Freedom of Information site Dostup do Pravdy processed its 10,000th FOI request. That’s pretty impressive, given that they launched just a couple of years ago, in 2014. We offer hearty congratulations to the Dostup do Pravdy team. We’re also looking very closely at how they achieved this level of usage, because the…

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