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FOI INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Online Network of Freedom of Information Advocates
www.freedominfo.org 

 Connecticut FOI Commission
http://www.state.ct.us/foi/

FOI Advocates Network
www.foiadvocates.net 

The FOI Advocates Network was formed to meet the need to exchange information between NGOs working actively in the freedom of information area and to facilitate the development of common projects. The FOIA Network aims to help NGOs with campaigning, advocacy, and fundraising, through exchange of information, ideas, strategies and by providing a forum for collaboration. The FOIA Network also aims to facilitate the forming of coalitions of NGOs to address FOI issues at a regional or global level. The network currently has 90 members from four continents.

The National Freedom of Information Coalition
www.nfoic.org

The NFOIC  is an alliance of FOI groups in the U.S. that educates media professionals, attorneys, academics, students and the general public on freedom of information. The NFOIC nurtures start-up FOI organizations in U.S. states. Its website contains links to access to information regulations in various states as well as to other related publications.

Article 19
www.article19.org 

London-based NGO that monitors, lobbies and litigates on behalf of freedom of expression. It also campaigns for the right to access information held by governments, public authorities and private bodies and companies. Article 19 has posted a Model Freedom of Information Law on its site.

National Security Archive
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ 

Independent research institute and library located in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. It also keeps track of the freedom of information movement worldwide.

Privacy International
http://www.privacy.org/ 

London-based watchdog on surveillance by governments and corporations. It maintains a website jointly with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. that focuses on civil liberties and privacy issues.

Transparency International
http://www.transparency.org/ 

The global corruption watchdog, has a working paper on access to information on its website that explains the elements of, and preconditions for, information access.

The Access to Information Programme
www.aip-bg.org 

Promotes freedom of information in Bulgaria through monitoring, legislative advocacy, training and legal assistance to those who had been denied access.

Freedom of Information in the European Union and Elsewhere
user.uni-frankfurt.de/~sobotta/FOI.htm 

A website established by German academic Christoph Sobotta, has links to FOI information, including texts of information-related laws of European countries and the EU.

 

Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (Georgia)
www.idfi.ge

Institute for Development of Freedom of Information is a non-partisan, non-governmental, non-commercial legal entity. Organization was established in Georgia, by Levan Avalishvili and Giorgi Kldiashvili with the support of the National Security Archive, within the format of an international conference held in Telavi, Georgia, through May 08-11, 2009. Mission of the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information is to initiate various activities in means of enhancing access to public information and achievement of a highest government openness and transparency by using Internet, to support the development of civil society and democratic values in Georgia and all over the world.

 
   
   
   
   

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