A woman’s right to know: Closing the gender gap with access to information // Le droit de savoir d'une femme : Combler le fossé entre les hommes et les femmes grâce à l'accès à l'information

Laura Neuman is a Senior Advisor with the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She leads the implementation of the center’s Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign.

Prior to joining the Carter Center in 1999, she was staff attorney at Legal Action of Wisconsin and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School.

• The journey from a law practice assisting disadvantaged groups to working at the Carter Center [3:05]
• The mandate of the Carter Center [4:18]
• The access to information legislation assessment tool — what it does and how it works [5:36]
• Focusing on gender inequality in access to information [8:15]
• Barriers for women seeking access to government-held information [13:40]
• Reaching women in an intentional way with information that can help them in their day-to-day lives [16:17]
• Statistics on the impact of improved access to information for women [18:41]
• Expansion of programming to cities in North America [23:28]
• Battling misinformation with trusted information and recognizing the digital divide [30:45]

Resources:

• Inform Women, Transform Lives (The Carter Center’s campaign to raise awareness of women’s right to information)
• Demystifying the FOI process (Info Matters episode)
• Trust and truth: Navigating the age of misinformation (Info Matters episode)
• File an appeal and pay fees online (IPC service)
• IPC Strategic Priorities 2021-2025
• Privacy and Transparency in a Modern Government(IPC resources)

Info Matters is a podcast about people, privacy, and access to information hosted by Patricia Kosseim, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. We dive into conversations with people from all walks of life and hear stories about the access and privacy issues that matter most to them.

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