Conference Session 141

Access to information: the Afro-Caribbean connection / Accès à l’information : parallèles entre l’Afrique et les Antilles

Access to Information Network - Africa (ATINA) / Réseau d’accès à l’information en Afrique (RAIA) Special Interest Group

Congress track 1: Open access and digital resources.

16 August 2011 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Grand Salon A | SI

• Access to Vice-Admiralty and colonial records of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and of African slavery in Jamaica
  CLAUDETTE THOMAS (Jamaica Archives and Records Department, Kingston, Jamaica), THELMA WHYTE (Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica) and PAULINE NICHOLAS (University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica)
• Public access to government information in Anglophone Africa and the English-speaking Caribbean: are we there yet?
  CHERRY-ANN SMART (University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica)
• Access-to-information legislation as a means to achieve transparency in Ghanaian governance: lessons from the Jamaican experience / Loi sur l'accès à l'information en tant que moyen d'assurer la transparence gouvernementale au Ghana et en Jamaïque
  CLETUS D. KUUNIFAA (School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)
• Panel on open access in Africa and in the Caribbean (1) -- Open access: benefits for Africa
  DENISE ROSEMARY NICHOLSON (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
• Panel on open access in Africa and in the Caribbean (2) -- No absolute truth: is there open access in the Caribbean?
  SUSAN LAURA LUGO (Archives, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands)