This panel will guide journalists through the art of using access to information (FOI) laws, with tips on how to integrate requests for documents into your research plan, how to draft requests, where ...
Andrea Menapace
Andrea Menapace is founder and Executive Director of the Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights (CILD), and a board member of the Civil Liberties Union for Europe. He previously worked for the Transparency & Accountability Initiative in London and was a researcher for Italy in the Open Government Partnership. Always active in the field of human rights, he began his career as a humanitarian worker before becoming a consultant and researcher for governments as well as non-governmental and international organizations. Co-founder of Diritto Di Sapere (Right To Know), the first Italian organization working on the right of access to information. He graduated in law at the University of Trento.
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