Right To Know Week - September 28 to October 2, 2009Welcome 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"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 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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