Sunshine on Public Data

Type: 
Conference
Audience: 
Private
Address: 
Central European University
Academic Area: 
Media, Communication and Information Policy
Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 9:00am
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Date: 
Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 9:00am

Organised by the CEU/CMCS and the Hungarian Ministry for Informatics and Communication, with support from the Council of Europe.

Participants in this conference on the regulation of access to electronic public information attended sessions and took part in roundtable discussions on the significance of freedom of information, freedom of information from an international point of view, and the challenges involved in extending the freedom of electronic information.

Presentations were given by László Sólyom, former President of the Constitutional Court of Hungary (and later President of Hungary); László Majtényi, President of Eötvös Károly Institute; Helena Jäderblom, Council of Europe expert and Director, Ministry of Justice, Sweden; and José Octavio López Presa, Commissioner at the Freedom of Information Institute in Mexico. Roundtable participants included Kálmán Kovács, the Hungarian Minister of Informatics and Communications. Practitioners from Index.hu, Figyelô/Info Rádió, HVG, Népszava and Népszabadság took part in a roundtable on the impact of the regulation of information on investigative journalism.