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