IFLA 2019_Congress Programme

254 IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2019 24—30 August 2019 | Athens, Greece Congress Programme | Thursday 29 August 2019 Thursday, 29 August Special Session Congress Programme Business Meeting Expo Pavilion/Tech Lab Session 3. Library and Archives and the Indigenous Language Landscape in Canada Normand Charbonneau (Library and Archives Canada, Canada), Camille Callison (University of Manitoba, Canada) Session 253 Business Meeting II - BCM Review Group 10:45 – 13:15 | Business Meeting Room 1 Session 254 Business Meeting II - Joint meeting of PAC Strategic Programme and Preservation and Conservation Section 10:45 – 13:15 | Business Meeting Room 2 Session 255 SC II - Information Literacy 10:45 – 13:15 | Business Meeting Room 3 Session 256 Legislation in Africa for Access to Information - ATINA 10:45 – 12:15 | Business Meeting Room 4 ATINA, the Access to Information Network – Africa, is holding a roundtable discussion on access to information laws in the world and in the African continent in particular. The session will allow attendees: • to review and discuss African countries which already adopted a law covering access to information, transparency, or open government • to identify problems where countries cannot apply all principles in the law effectively • to identify problems why projects on access to information laws are not adopted • to collect best practices from countries access to information laws and where citizens are able to benefit from an open and transparent government beyond the existence of Governmental libraries • At the end of the session, we would like to collect: • best practices and experiences in advocacy actions that enable the adoption of an Access to Information law;