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International FOIA
Upcoming Launch of freedominfo.org
In July 2002, the Archive will launch a World Wide Web-based virtual
network of freedom of information advocates worldwide. The need for
such linkages is especially acute today, in the wake of the September 11th
attacks, when governments around the world are retrenching on openness
in the name of fighting terrorism. With the URL freedominfo.org
as its name, the network will commission “lessons learned” accounts from
the successful and unsuccessful campaigns, and from key advocates in countries
struggling to implement new FOI laws and monitor older ones. This
joint international effort will create an online institutional memory of
campaign strategies and tactics, debates over actual and proposed statutes,
non-statutory openness initiatives, best practices for implementation,
important legal/procedural cases, and specific examples (documents, news
stories, cases) from around the world where freedom of information has
made a difference. Freedominfo.org will also commission and
publish a series of papers on “hot” issues and current developments.
As a preview of things to come, the Archive has published on
this Web site the first two installments of this new international freedom
of information initiative, reviewing FOI developments in Japan and Mexico.
Follow the links below for more information:
Freedom of
Information in Mexico - Full text and analysis of new Mexican
freedom of information law.
Japanese Government Information: New Rules
for Access - Legislative history and analysis of Japan's freedom
of information law, including a side-by-side comparison of its key
provisions with analogous provisions of the U.S. FOIA.
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