[Advocacy Advisors] Policy Issues Survey 2013

[Amgine]

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On 22/10/13 10:30 AM, James Salsman wrote:
> Thank you, Dimi, this is very helpful.
> 
> Government freedom of information and Wikipedia is indicated as
> top importance, but Jimmy Wales recently indicated that we should
> not release logs about what IP addresses assigned to specific
> public agencies have been reading. I am okay with that, but there
> are other issues recently involving an editor from the EPA
> responsible for pesticide testing trying to downplay the toxicity
> of the neonicotinoids, and do I ever have a story to tell you about
> depleted uranium, but per the following I have become very
> eventualist about it:
> 
> http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/Gulf-War-and-HealthTreatment-for-Chronic-Multisymptom-Illness/Report-Brief012313.aspx
>
>  http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/medsearch/Cancer/DoD122.shtml
> 
> http://www.smj.org.sa/PDFFiles/May12/Uranium.pdf
> 
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1242351/
> 
> http://www.marciainhorn.com/olwp/wp-content/uploads/Effect-of-war-on-fertility-a-review-of-the-literature.pdf
>
>  
> http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/10/04/are-scientists-being-muzzled-a-look-at-the-record/
>
>  
> http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/oct/13/world-health-organisation-iraq-war-depleted-uranium
>
>  I would be very interested to learn your thoughts on the top
> priorities.
> 
> Best regards, James Salsman


Wait, what? You're okay with allowing parts of governments to
browse/edit privately, but not make this service general to all?

I should think WMF would first allow such functionality to
non-government citizens, then NGO/corporates, then government. IMO the
government has the least justification for such privacy, and the
greatest responsibility for transparency.

Amgine
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