Right to Know Day around the world - Dominican Republic

Organizer: Participacion Ciudadana
Dates: September 25-29, 2006

Description: Participacion Ciudadana in the Dominican Republic is celebrating Right to Know Day with a week of activities including:

25 September: Press release about Right to Know Day

25 September: Launch of a network of community radions that will broadcast a pilot educational programme on the Free Access to Public Information law.

26 September: Presentation of 2nd annual report on implementation of the Free Access to Public Information Law

27 September: Presentation of results of diagnostic of supply and demand of information in 8 pilot institutions. The presentation will take place at 6:00 p.m. in Hotel Melia, Salon Samana

28 September: Panel discussion on "Progress, challenges and obstacles to implementation of the Law of Free Access to Public Information in coordination with the Dominican Journalists Association.

In all of these activities, members of civil society and public servants will be participating, and there will be publicity about each event.