Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Webinars and documents for International Day for Universal Access to Information day #accesstoinfoday

International Day for Universal Access to Information was yesterday, but UNESCO has a programme of events which continues today and tomorrow (apologies, I only just came across these). The page with all the links is at https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/accesstoinformationday

There is a webinar today at 4.30pm Paris time Access to Information implementation and Crisis Resolution during COVID-19 Outbreak which "will discuss best practices in access to information and how they could be employed to save citizens from the COVID-19 pandemic" 

Webinars on 30 September (tomorrow) are: Media and Information Literate Youth: A Cornerstone to Implementing Access to Information Policies (3pm Paris time) and Open Access an imperative for Open Science for Building Resilience in the Face of COVID-19 (4.30pm Paris time)

There is also a 16 page statement here The right to information in times of crisis: access to information – saving lives, building trust, bringing hope!

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