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Day One  26 November 07 - Closed Session for Commissioners

Please click here to view a pdf of the programme.
The conference programme has now been finalised.  Abstracts for speakers are available (where they have been received) for Days 2-4.  Final papers and presentations will be added in due course.

 
8.30am Registration Desk Opens
8.45 am Powhiri
9.30 am Plenary Session

Opening of the conference
Hon Margaret Wilson, Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives

Welcome - Overview of the conference, what we’d like it to achieve
John Belgrave, Chief Ombudsman, New Zealand

The Genesis and Future of New Zealand’s 25-year experience of Freedom of Information.
Video interview with Sir Kenneth Keith, member of the International Court of Justice
Room: Banquet Hall
10.45 am Morning Tea - Grand Hall
11.15 am Plenary Session
The current issues and future challenges for FOI in New Zealand

John Belgrave, Chief Ombudsman, New Zealand
Room: Banquet Hall 
11.30 am
Workshops
Ensuring compliance with investigation requests for information and decisions that public authorities should disclose information.

     
Workshop 1A
Andrea Neill, Assistant Commissioner,
Complaints Resolution and Compliance, Canada
Room: Legislative Council Chamber
Workshop 1B
Nataša Pirc Musar, Information Commissioner, Republic of Slovenia
Room: Banquet Hall
12.30 pm Lunch - Grand Hall
1.30 pm Plenary Session
Talking to government about sensitive issues:  how far can ‘behind the scenes’ conversations resolve problems?

Richard Woods, formerly Director, Security Intelligence Service, New Zealand
Marie Shroff, Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand
Room: Banquet Hall
2.45 pm Report back from the workshops on compliance.
Sharing the main points that arose in each group
Room: Banquet Hall
3.05 pm Afternoon Tea - Grand Hall
3.30 pm Plenary Session
Communications Tools for Information Commissioners
                                                                                                                       
Alonso Lujambio Irazábal, Commissioner President, Federal Institute of Access to Public Information, Mexicoconference
Room: Banquet Hall          
          
4.30 pm Plenary Session
Future conferences

Beverley Wakem, Ombudsman, New Zealand
Room: Banquet Hall 
5.30pm End of day One