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ACTION, an ambitious multi-country
project which will run until the end of 2013 in the MENA region. The
title behind the acronym, Addressing Corruption Through Information and
Organised Networking, encapsulates the goals of the project, which will
focus on maximising the potential that online communication and
contemporary knowledge sharing methods offer for strengthening
governance in the region.
The participating countries, Egypt, Morocco,
Palestine and Yemen. are obliged by Article 10 of the Convention to
ensure access to public information and transparency in administration.
The project was designed
before the Arab Spring woke up the world. But it foresaw the dynamic
potential of online communication and knowledge sharing that the
revolutions revealed.
The project will focus on
bringing the knowledge of young activists into the field of access to
information and maximising the innovations that they can offer, through
participatory seminars and knowledge sharing sessions.
At the same time, the
program will also work with young journalists to empower their role as
public watchdogs. Legal and technical training will help them to
exercise their right to access to information and enable the protection
of confidential date or private sources
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