Contributors
ann florini is visiting professor and director, Centre on Asia and Glo-
balization, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of
Singapore, and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington,
DC. She is the author of numerous publications on information policy and
global governance, including The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running
a New World (Island Press 2003/Brookings Press 2005).
thomas s. blanton is Director of the National Security Archive at George
Washington University in Washington, DC. He filed his first Freedom of In-
formation Act request in 1976 as a weekly newspaper reporter in Minnesota.
His books include White House E-Mail: The Top Secret Computer Messages the
Reagan-Bush White House Tried to Destroy (The New Press, 1995). His articles
have appeared in The International Herald-Tribune, The New York Times, The
Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe,
Slate, the Wilson Quarterly, and many other publications. He is a graduate of
Harvard University, and a founding editorial board member of freedominfo.
org, a virtual network on international freedom of information.
richard calland is the Executive Director of the Open Democracy
Advice Centre (ODAC) in Cape Town and a founding member of the law
