The Government of Georgia will host the 5th OGP Global Summit in Tbilisi, Georgia, on July 17-19, 2018. The Summit will provide an excellent opportunity for leaders from OGP’s 76 participating countries, local governments, and beyond to exchange ideas on how they are making their governments more transparent, accountable, and responsive to citizens.

Please register for the Global Summit at www.ogpsummit.org and send your questions and/or feedback to summit@opengovpartnership.org.

Sustainable Development Goals and Access to Information

This workshop will focus on methodologies for assessing implementation of right to information (RTI) laws, in particular the work done on this by UNESCO and FOIAnet in light of SDG Indicator 16.10.2 (implementation of RTI laws). The objective is to advance understanding of how to assess this complex SDG indicator, something that has been a challenge until now. Following the Workshop, FOIAnet will integrate the ideas into a revised assessment methodology, and then present this at the 2019 High Level Political Forum Conference, which includes SDG 16, while UNESCO will integrate ideas around State self-assessments into their thinking on this.

Moderators

Toby Mendel

Executive Director, Centre for Law and Democracy

I have been a freedom of expression/right to information lawyer and activist for over 20 years with a lot of experience working at the international level and in countries in regions around the world. Perhaps my most important area of expertise is in terms of standard-setting where... Read More →

Speakers

Sylvie Coudray

Chief of Section for Freedom of Expression, Division of Freedom of Expression and Media Development, UNESCO

Carole Excell

Acting Director of Environmental Democracy Practice, World Resources Institute

I am the project Director of the Access Initiative which works on the right to know, an opportunity to participation and access to justice in environmental decision-making. I represent the World Resources Institute on the OGP Working Group on Natural Resources and Openness.