Information and Communication Rights in Africa are critical: Mushelenga

Over 80 information and communication rights advocates, media professionals, and academics from across Africa adopted a forward-looking declaration, articulating the roadmap to be considered towards advancing information and communication rights in Africa.

This was at the end of a Regional Conference on Information and Communication Rights in Africa, held in Windhoek from 31 May to 2 June.

The conference was co-hosted by Fesmedia Africa and the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa, in the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), in partnership with UNESCO Windhoek Office and the Namibia Media Trust (NMT).

The objective of the conference was to deliberate on matters and challenges affecting access to information, freedom of expression, and digital rights in Africa; to exchange strategies and learnings in developing the policies and practices that give practical effect to the rights to information, expression and a free and independent media, as well as to frame the regional investment, development, and advocacy agenda required to advance the comprehensive elaboration of information and communications rights in Africa.

The Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Hon. Dr. Peya Mushelenga, in a keynote address, highlighted that Information and Communication Rights in Africa, are critical due to the advancement of digital and information and communication technologies.

By The Staff Reporter

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