The internet has a vast array of information about public access to information legislation. This is a small selection of some of the most useful websites:

• To read the entire green paper on the proposed PATI legislation for Bermuda visit www.cpu.gov.bm and click on the link on the left.

• The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association — of which Bermuda is a member — has an interesting article detailing how Caribbean MPs have agreed on the need for wide-ranging FOI.

Read it at:

www.cpahq.org/default.aspx?id=19262&;terms=FOI.

• The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative has masses of information on how Commonwealth countries measure up when it comes to FOI: http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org.

• To view an up-to-date list of all the countries around the world which have implemented FOI visit the online network of FOI advocates www.freedominfo.org.

• The Government of Cayman has an excellent website on its new FOI law which is due to come into effect in January 2009: www.foi.gov.ky.

• To find out about FOI in Ireland — one of the countries studied by Bermuda's Central Policy Unit when drafting the green paper — visit www.foi.gov.ie.

• The Carter Center — a human rights organisation founded by former US president Jimmy Carter — was instrumental in helping Jamaica introduce FOI legislation. Find out about its access to information initiative in the Americas at www.cartercenter.org/peace/americas/access_information.html.

• OpenTheGovernment.org is a coalition of journalists, consumer and good government groups, environmentalists, library groups, labour and others united to make the US federal government more open.

Its website www.openthegovernment.org has tons of information on reversing government secrecy.

• The National Freedom of Information Coalition in the US brings together organisations across the country with the common purpose of ensuring the public's right to oversee its government. Its website is at www.nfoic.org.

• Transparency International — a global coalition against corruption — gives a good explanation of how access to information laws can prevent corruption on its website at www.transparency.org/global_priorities/access_information.

• Human Rights watchdog Privacy International conducted a survey in 2006 of countries which had adopted FOI, including Caribbean islands such as Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. Download it at http://www.privacyinternational.org/foi/foisurvey2006.pdf.

• The Campaign for Freedom of Information in the UK lists 500 disclosures made in the UK when the British FOI Act came into effect in 2005 at www.cfoi.org.uk/pdf/FOI%20Disclosures.pdf.

• British journalists Martin Rosenbaum and Heather Brooke both write great blogs on how to use the UK's FOI Act — visit www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/opensecrets and www.yrtk.org.