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Experts Group Meeting, UNESCO Headquarters, 17 and 18 March 2008.
The Experts’ Meeting brings together a panel of approximately 30 experts from all regions to debate issues related to the right to access to information held by public bodies and its impact on sustainable development worldwide.
On the first day the experts will make presentations about:
“Freedom of Information and sustainable development” (session 1);
“Challenges for advocacy and implementation of Laws” (session 2);
“Freedom of Information visibility on the development agenda” (session 3).
While on the second day morning they will meet three sub-groups:
Links between Freedom of Information and citizens’ participation, empowerment, and sustainable development;
Best-practices and lesson-learned in the implementation of Freedom of Information legislation in developing countries;
Strategy to strengthen Freedom of Information advocacy at the global/regional/national level.
The findings of the sub-groups will then be shared in an open meeting on the afternoon of 18 March, starting at 3 pm in room XI. This meeting coincides with the launch of the revised and updated edition of the publication “Freedom of Information: a Comparative Legal Survey”, which will be presented by its author Toby Mendel.
On the first day the experts will make presentations about:
While on the second day morning they will meet three sub-groups:
The findings of the sub-groups will then be shared in an open meeting on the afternoon of 18 March, starting at 3 pm in room XI. This meeting coincides with the launch of the revised and updated edition of the publication “Freedom of Information: a Comparative Legal Survey”, which will be presented by its author Toby Mendel.
