I am working up a speech for the Personal Democracy Forum where I will
rattle off some of the most dramatic digital information access
rights/services/requirements outside the United States.

For example, in Estonia with a X-Road system every citizen has the
ability to securely view private data held about them from across 70+
government databases. They also can see when that data was access, have
a right ask why, and have a process to correct incorrect information
about them. Wow. (I am curious how the document register for civil
servant drafts is working … anyone have an update?)

Another example. in the UK citizens have been given the ability/right to
petition the Prime Minister from a government website. That is significant.

I am looking to identify a few more “wow” examples. Send them in:
clift@e-democracy.org

I need someone to confirm how the information register(?) system works
in Sweden. Is it true that the public/reporters can go to a government
agency and view all e-mail in and out of that agency on system designed
to support a pre-Internet right to do that in the paper world? Hey there
my Swedish friends. Help me out here.

Thanks,
Steven Clift

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