appendix d: summaries of selected cases the chairman of the Working Group was itself an authority, namely the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that the chairmanship did not use a specially screened case number for the Working Group’s documents, that the chairmanship primarily acted as secretariat for the Working Group, and that the individual Working Group members contributed on behalf of the authorities each of them represented. The Ombudsman therefore recommended that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reconsider its refusal to give access. The Ombudsman also recommended that the Ministry reconsider whether there was still a need for secrecy with regard to contacts with the United States. The Ombudsman referred to the fact that the Home Rule Government of Greenland had already issued a press release which contained information about the contact with the United States. (Case No. 2009-0188-401, Case No. 2009-0318-401 and Case No. 20091264-401) 18. Ministry of Education The following three cases concluded in 2010 were selected for publication in the Annual Report: 1. S  chools cannot demand that pupils use their own computer in school The Ombudsman decided to open an own-initiative case vis-à-vis the Ministry of Education concerning schoolchildren’s use of their own computer during lessons at school. The reason for his decision was a newspaper article according to which several of the country’s primary and lower secondary schools demanded that schoolchildren brought a computer of their own to school to use during lessons. The Ministry of Education stated that no payment may be demanded from parents for necessary teaching materials that are used in general teaching, such as text books, dictionaries and pocket calculators. The Ministry also stated that there is no authority to demand that primary and upper secondary school pupils bring a computer of their own to lessons. If lessons are based on the use of computers, the school must provide these free of charge for pupils who do not wish to use a computer of their own. 91