FOIAnet resources
Freedom of information guides and resources:
• Statewatch's Observatory on: "FOI in the EU" which carries the most extensive coverage of the struggle for openness in the EU over the past 15 years:
http://www.statewatch.org/foi.htm
• Free FOI Monitor developed by Adam Pope. The FOI Monitor is designed to allow you to track your access to information requests with ease - even sending an email to alert staff when requests are nearing their due-by date. Loaded with drop-down boxes, template letters, reports compliant with the DCA and automated fields the FOI Monitor will make answering requests so much easier.
• Third volume of
"Access to Information Litigation in Bulgaria. Selected cases",
published in the beginning of 2006 by Access to Information Programme
Full text: Acrobat
Reader PDF (2611Kb) 
• Overview of FOIA
Countries Worldwide – February 1 2006 by Roger Vleugels - independent
Dutch-based legal consultant, specializing for more than 20 in FOI
Full text: Acrobat
Reader PDF (86Kb)
• Freedom of Information and Press Freedom in Kenya - An article by the Kenya Union of Journalists to commemorate the International Rights to Know Day as declared by the International Freedom of Information Advocates network (FOIA Net). Read more...
• User friendly guide to the US FOIA, put together by Michael Powell. He who is currently doing his PhD in anthropology and has somehow found his way to the right of access to information. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~mgpowell/
• Access to Information
in Bulgaria 2003. Report by Access to Information Programme
Full text: Acrobat
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• Access
to Information Litigation in Bulgaria. Volume 2.
AIP have chosen the most important FOI court cases in Bulgaria
between 2002 and 2004. The analytical part of the book was written by
Alexander Kashumov and Kiril Terziiski.
Full text: Acrobat
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• Freedom
of Information Legislation in Russia 2003, Currently situation
Marina Savintseva, Programme Co-ordinator Access to Information,
Center for Anti-corruption Research and Initiative Transparency International
– R
Full text: Acrobat
Reader PDF (35kb)
• Pristup
k Informaciam ako Protivokurupcni Nastroj (Access to Information
as an anticorruption tool) by Transparency International, Slovakia
Full text: Acrobat
Reader PDF (232kb)
• Practival
guide on the access to information of public interest, Romania
Full text: Acrobat
Reader PDF (41kb)
• 106
odpovedi na vase dotazy Prirucka pro obcany o svobodnem pristupu k informacim
(106 answers to your questions, Handbook for obtaining free access
to information) by Otevrena spolecnost, The Czech Republic.
Full text: Acrobat
Reader PDF (184kb)
• La
informacion es de todos. Denuncia a quien no te da informacion
(Information is for everyone. Denounce those who do not not present it)
Poster by Consejo de la Prensa Peruana
Available here:
Acrobat Reader PDF (105kb)
• "How
to Get Access to Environmental Information" handbook by Access
to Information Programme, Bulgaria
Full text: Acrobat
Reader PDF (253kb)
• Access to Information
Litigation in Bulgaria. Selected Cases.
AIP have chosen the most important court appeals in the field of access
to information in Bulgaria between 2000 and 2002. The introduction to
the book was written by Alexander Kashumov and edited by Gergana Jouleva.
Full text: Acrobat
PDF (732Kb)
The Report examines the right to information in Commonwealth countries. It is intended to provide law-makers, advocates and the public with guidance on RTI advocacy, as well as drafting and implementing freedom of information legislation. The Report is in four chapters:
(1) The Value of the Right and Its Status in the Commonwealth;
(2) Law-Making: International Standards and Minimum Principles for Domestic Legislation;
(3) Implementation Challenges and Strategies;
(4) Civil Society RTI Advocacy Experiences."
Executive summary: Acrobat
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The right of access to information makes possible the public involvement in formulating social policies and in the decision-making processes of governance The right to information can only
be effectively exercised and implemented on the basis of laws, regulating
this right in accordance with international standards |
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