About the Freedom of Information Advocates Network |
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The Freedom of Information Advocates Network (FOIAnet) is an international information-sharing network of organizations and individuals working to promote the right of access to information. Members of FOIAnet are civil society organizations with active programmes to promote the right to know. FOIAnet also runs a discussion list for news and debate on the right of access to information; there are currently over 400 people on this list, including CSO representatives and lawyers, academics, information commissioners and others with a specialised interest in the right to information. The network launched and promotes International Right to Know Day which takes place on 28th September of every year. |
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Council of Europe |
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12 States Sign World's First Treaty on Access to Information
- What about the other 35 Council of Europe Member States?
12 European countries - Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Slovenia, and Sweden - today became the first states to sign the world's first treaty on access to information - the Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents - at a meeting of Ministers of Justice held in Tromso, Norway on 18 June 2009. |
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"Open Letter by Members of Global Openness Community welcoming President Obama's Initiative on Transparency" |
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 Over 50 civil society organizations from around the world have written an open letter welcoming the steps taken by President Barack Obama on his first day in office to reverse recent trends and to promote high standards of openness in government. The letter states: "We particularly welcome the call for a clear presumption in favor of disclosure of information, so that "in the face of doubt, openness prevails".
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Right to Know Day - 28 September 2009 |
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International Right to Know Day on 28 September 2009 will be celebrated by civil society organizations from around the world. Activities will include conferences on current challenges to access to information, release of reports by NGOs on different aspects of open government including secrecy policies, transparency of political finance contributions, and results of monitoring studies as well as awards for transparent public authorities and for civil society groups working to promote transparency in their countries.
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What You Can Do |
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if you are an NGO / civil society organization ... hold an event, a debate, an award ceremony .... write a press release ... hold a discussion with a local community group or in the local school ... print up posters and t-shirts and hand them out in the streets ... get people involved and, best of all, get them exercising their rights by filing request for information!
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