• Fecha: 19 Jul 2011

The executive director of the foundation was one of the speakers at a seminar organized by the Coalition Proacceso Venezuela. At the seminar, the attendees discussed the advantages of having a law on transparency, at which time Sanchez shared the Chilean.

While continuing the political and social debate over whether Venezuela should have a law on access to public information, the Coalition Proacceso of that country held the "Seminar V: Proposed Law on Access to Public Information, a reality for Venezuela", a series of events to finally promote the contents of the draft legislation being discussed in the Venezuelan parliament.

At this event, which occurred on the 16th of June, the executive director of Pro Acceso Chile, Moises Sanchez, participated via Skype. The lawyer explained the Chilean experience in terms of transparency, and reflected on the suitability of the procedure for electing members to the body that monitors the right of access to public information, in the case of Chile, the Council for Transparency .

In addition, the seminar discussed the importance of having a regulatory law in this area, what the role of citizenship is and the citizen’s role in the public sector, and how much progress has been made in transparency in Latin America among other topics.

Among the topics presented, the seminar discussed why it is so important that there be a Law on Access to Information in Venezuela, the degree of access to information that exists in Latin America, and the organizations responsible for ensuring this right in each country.

"The goal of the seminar was to generate discussion on the advantages of having an instrument that guarantees access to public information in this country," said the executive director of Transparency Venezuela, Mercedes De Freitas.

In addition to Moises Sanchez, Enrique Gonzalez, the Director of Attention to the Society of the Federal Institute of Access to Information (IFAI) of Mexico, Marco Day, project manager of the Governorship of Miranda, and Roberto Ruiz, director of the Office of Citizen Attention of the Municipality of Baruta participated in the seminar and contributed with their different experiences.