För att uppmärksamma den internationella dagen för universell tillgång till information 2020 och dess teman, kommer UNESCO att anordna en webbsänd expertpanel - "Access of Information - Saving lives, Building Trust, Bringing Hope!", datum 28 september, kl. 14:00 (svensk tid).
The Open Talks webinar, “Access to Information, Transparency and Openness: Taking Forward Agenda 2030 in Times of Crisis,” will discuss international standards of upholding the right to information, and how such practices create transparency and openness required to navigate crises.
As the UN custodian agency of the Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 16.10.2, UNESCO oversees the monitoring and reporting on public access to information (ATI). However, how can access to information provide insights for the achievement of other Sustainable Development Goals?
Now more than ever, access to information protects us from crises. The right to information provides citizens the information that they need in order to prepare for emergencies. The webinar, "Access to Information implementation and Crisis Resolution during COVID-19 Outbreak," will discuss best practices in access to information and how they could be employed to save citizens from the COVID-19 pandemic.
With over 1.8 billion youth, ages 14 to 25 worldwide, the leadership of young men and women have never been more crucial. According to UNDESA, “young people are particularly vulnerable to the disruptions of the pandemic has caused, and many are now at risk of being left behind.”
The webinar, Opening Science for building resilience in the face of Covid-19, will celebrate the achievements and innovations in democratization of scientific knowledge and Open Access in the past 20 years, while paving the way forward for coming decades.