In September, the United Nations approved the Sustainable Development Goals, successor to the Millennium Development Goals, which include a provision that to ensures public access to information and protects fundamental freedoms. While this important first step has been hailed as a victory for the media development community, the detailed work on specific indicators and how these two elements will be measured still has to be agreed. Draft indicators have been proposed, but international agreement regarding the indicators will require further vigilance and engagement by the media development community. Please join us for a discussion examining this important topic with stakeholders from the agenda-setting process including Bill Orme from the Global Forum for Media Development, Quinn McKew from Article 19, and Victoria Lemieux from the World Bank. Panelists will discuss the compromises that were made, the negotiating process ahead, and potential impact of these new goals on our media development and access-to-information work.
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