Heather Brooke: My battle to expose government corruption
Heather Brooke: Mi batalla para exponer la corrupción del gobierno
Heather Brooke campaigns for freedom of information, requesting one secret document at a time. Full bio
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una grande y disfuncional familia.
y los documentos secretos
se guardaban en este edificio,
al que me enfrenté
luchando contra el Parlamento
de la Corte Suprema británica
debía o no hacer públicos estos datos.
porque el problema fue
la publicación de los datos
con carácter retrospectivo
que se vio obligado a dimitir,
no es exclusiva de Gran Bretaña.
Incluso cuando
en el campo del acceso a la información
Cada vez más gente en todo el mundo
que se hacen en su nombre
como comprar una casa,
de transparencia y acceso a la información.
No miren al hombre detrás de la cortina."
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Heather Brooke - JournalistHeather Brooke campaigns for freedom of information, requesting one secret document at a time.
Why you should listen
Heather Brooke is a freelance journalist, freedom of information campaigner and professor of journalism at City University London. In 2005, she filed one of the very first requests under the UK's Freedom of Information Act, asking to see the expense reports of Members of Parliament. The request was blocked, modified and refiled, and blocked again...but the years-long quest to view expense documents, and the subsequent investigation, led to 2009's parliamentary expenses scandal. The scandal led to the first forced resignation of the Speaker of the House in 300 years.
Brooke worked as a political and crime reporter in the US before moving to Britain, where she writes for the national papers. She has published three books: Your Right to Know, The Silent State, and 2011's The Revolution Will Be Digitised. It was while researching her latest book that she obtained a leak from Wikileaks of the full batch of 251,287 US diplomatic cables and worked with The Guardian newspaper on an investigation.
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