Access to public information

How to write a request for access to public information and get the desired result

Experts: Alona Chernetska, Oleksii Kabanov, Liudmyla Denisova, +3

Memes and stickers will not work if you want to send a letter to the authority. But there is a solution! You can send a request and an appeal to government agencies and get a response. You can ask anything — almost any information is public.

Watch this short series to find out what information can be shared with you. Sometimes the government cannot tell you everything it knows — this is called confidential or proprietary information. In the series, you will learn how to distinguish between them.

It only takes an hour to learn how to communicate with the state better than with your friends in a messenger!

It was created with the support of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, the National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service, and the Human Rights for Ukraine project implemented by UNDP in Ukraine and funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.

Format:
Education series
EKTS:
0.2
Languages:
Ukrainian
Topic:
Open data
Intended for:
for active citizens, for adults
Competencies:
Information literacy, ability to work with data

Program

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We are going to tell you what public information is, its features, types and forms. We will learn to understand when information becomes public and in the possession of an authority.

Invited experts

Alona Chernetska
Journalist of Channel 24
Oleksii Kabanov
Head of the Department for Respecting the Right to Access to Public Information of the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Commissioner for Human Rights.
Liudmyla Denisova
Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Human Rights
Oleksandr Yarmak
Rap artist