Day 2

08:45 – 09:15

Registration of participants and welcome tea

09.15 – 09:45

Key Note Speaker

  • Professor David Cuillier, University of Florida, USA

09:45 – 11.00

Plenary Panel 1:  Global Best Practices for ensuring that access to information can contribute to upholding and safeguarding information integrity

  • Emerlinda Guri Pema, Office of Data Protection and Information Commissioner, Albania
  • David Hamilton, Information Commissioner, Scotland, UK
  • Genevieve Shirley Lartey, Esq. Executive Secretary/Commissioner, Right to Information Commission, Ghana
  • Elizabet Rosana Diaz Valerio de Oviedo, Information Commissioner, Dominican Republic
  • Dr Francis Sowa, Media Reform Coordinating Group, Fourah Bay College, University of SL

11:00 -11:30

Tea/Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00

Plenary panel 2: Access to credible data for open government and public sector reform

  • Moderator: Suliaman Phoray Musa, Director, Public Sector Reform Unit, Sierra Leone
  • Jeanette Van Den Bulk, Deputy Information and Privacy Commissioner, British Columbia, Canada
  • Carina Paju, Senior Regional Coordinator for Europe and Lead for the Proactive Disclosure Coalition at Open Government Partnership (OGP).
  • Alice Linacre PSM, Freedom of Information Commissioner, Australia
  • Joseph Munda Bindi, Chairman, National Council for Civic Education and Development, Sierra Leone

13.00 – 14:00

Lunch

10.00 -11.00

Plenary Panel 3: The Challenges of Information Disorder in Africa: Wither Information Integrity? Panel hosted by African Network of Information Commissions (ANIC) in partnership with African Commission on Human and People’s rights

  • Moderator Winston Chafikana Juma Mwafulirwa , Human Rights Commission, Malawi
  • Advocate Pansy Tlakula, Chairperson, ANIC/Information Regulator, South Africa
  • Ms Geereeshatopsy Sonoo, African Union Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information
  • Omar Seghrouchni, President of Data Protection and Access to Information, Kingdom of Morocco
  • Anne Marie Konan Payne, Information Commissioner, Cote D’Ivoire
  • Neneh Gaye, Chairperson/Commissioner, Right to Access Information, The Gambia

15:15-16:00

Parallel Panels:

15:15-16:00

Parallel session 1: Gender, Youth, and disability: How inequitable access fuels information disorder

  • Dr Isata Mahoi, Gender and Children’s Minister, Sierra Leone
  • Laura Newman, Senior Advisor, Office of the Vice-President for Peace Programs, Carter Centre for Democracy, USA)
  • Mr Joash T. Hodges, Information Commissioner, Liberia
  • Margaret-Jah Maturi, Siera Leone’s Permanent Representative to UNESCO, Paris

Parallel Session 2: Youth Leadership and Digital Community Spaces in Promoting Information Integrity

  • Ms Krenare Sogojeva Dërmaku, Information Commissioner of Kosovo
  • Amrita Jhori, Right to Information Activist, India
  • Khairil Yusof, Coordinator - Sinar Project, Malaysia
  • Dave M Gomez, Acting Secretary, Presidential Communication Office, The Philippines
  • Gilbert Ronald Sendugwa Sendugwa, Africa Freedom of Informaiton Centre, Kampala, Uganda
  • Prof Olunifesi Adekunle Suraj, Mass Communication, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Parallel Panel 3: Balancing right to information and right to privacy/data protection in the context of beneficial ownership transparency.

  • Panel Proposer and Moderator: Adam Foldes of Transparency International, Germany,
  • Dr Tetyana Oleksiyuk, Vice-President of Access Info Group under the Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents (Tromsø Convention)
  • a representative of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office
  • a right to information NGO (The Asia-Pacific Region proposed Ms Anjali Bhardwaj Sharma
  • Co-Convenor - National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI), India)
  • Charles Dulo, Ombudman, Commission for Administrative Justice, Kenya

Parallel Panel 4: Access to Fisheries Management Information: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach.

  • Moderator: Mr Edward Koroma, Transparency International, Siera Leone
  • Dr. Godfred Ameyaw Asiedu, Fisheries Transparency Initiative, West Africa
  • Andreas Hartl, Deputy Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Germany
  • Mr Sheku Sei, Director of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Sierra Leone
  • Hon Lorpu Ponawannie Page, Executive Director, Independent Information Commission, Liberia
  • Dr Nwamaka-Okeke Ugbuafor, Lecturer, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

16:00 -16:30

Plenary Panel 3: feedbacks from parallel sessions.  Moderator: Dr Emmanual Gaima, Principal Adviser to the President and Head of Public Sector Reform

16:30 – 16.50

Tea/Coffee Break

16.50 – 17.30

Session 5 –Parallel Regional Meetings

  • Parallel session 1: African Network
  • Parallel session 2: Asian Network
  • Parallel session 3: European Network/ENTRI
  • Parallel session 4: Ibero - American Transparency and Access to Information Network
  • Parallel session 5: North American Network
  • Parallel session 6: Oceania – Australia Network

17.30 – 18.00

Session 6 - Plenary

  • Moderators: Dr Ibrahim Seaga Shaw (RAIC-SL) and Mr Marius Lukosuinas (UNESCO-Paris)-Adoption of the Freetown ICIC/IDUAI
  • Joint Declaration on access to information as a pillar of Information Integrity and Closing Remarks by ICIC Chair Mr Besnic Dervishi
  • Dinner and cultural gala hosted by RAIC-SL
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