Transparency – the key to democracy

Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor at Computer Weekly, gives a journalist’s view of FOI and why it is such an important tool for holding Governments to account. Bill details cases that have been involved in challenges to the FOI Act itself and those that reinforced the importance of FOI as a force for good.

He will also discuss the challenges faced by journalists when making an FOI request and why upholding the right to know is pivotal to our democracy.