[CivicAccess-discuss] Right To Know Week - September 28 - October 2, 2009

[Ted Hildebrandt]

Right To Know Week - September 28 to October 2, 2009
http://www.righttoknow.ca/
 
Welcome to the Right to Know website! The purpose of Right to Know Week
is to raise citizen awareness about their right to access information
under the control of government institutions. In 2009 Canadian Right to
Know Week will take place from September 28th to October 2nd.

 

This year marks the fourth year that Canadians have celebrated Right to
Know Week, and there are a great number of events planned all across
Canada. Internationally, Right to Know Day began in Sofia, Bulgaria at
an international meeting of access to information advocates who proposed
that a day be dedicated to the promotion of freedom of information
worldwide. Right Know Day is now celebrated annually by over 60
different countries on September 28th.

 

This website is a portal to all jurisdictions across the country
mandated to address complaints about access to information.
 
Also, from David Akin's blog http://davidakin.blogware.com
<http://davidakin.blogware.com> 
 
http://davidakin.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2009/9/15/4322628.html
 
"I was pleased to be invited to be a panelist for one of the sessions
that will be part of the "Right To Know" conference, to be held Sept.
28-Oct. 1 and organized by the Office of the Information Commissioner of
Canada.

It's all part of Right To Know Week <http://www.righttoknow.ca/>  across
the country.

There's lots of great sessions for those interested in this important
issue.

My session will be on Monday, Sept. 28 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The
conference will be held at the Canadian War Museum here in the nation's
capital.

Suzanne Legault, the interim information commissioner, will make some
opening remarks before my panel discussion which is centred on
"Citizens' Engagement and State Accountability." My good friends David
McKie of CBC Radio and Jeff Sallot, now of Carleton University and
formerly of The Globe and Mail, will also be on the panel. We'll be
joined by Andy Kaplan-Myrth, a lawyer and VP of VisibleGovernment.ca,
Ben Leapman, one of the journalists who contributed to the (UK) Daily
Telegraph's terrific work on unearthing the outrageous expenses of
British parliamentarians, Kerry Pither, a human rights and civil
liberties advocate. Lucy van Oldenbarneveld, host of CBC News at Six in
Ottawa, will be moderating the panel.

The conference is free! So please tell one and all about it."

 
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Ted Hildebrandt
Director of Social Planning
Community Development Halton
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