Put your artistic skills to the test!
Do you think you have cartooning skills? There is N$10,000 up for grabs to develop an 8-page comic book that be distributed all over the country. Criteria: On an A4 page, draw and submit a short graphic comic with two characters that have “Namibian look”. The comic...
CSO’s among the least transparent organisations in Namibia
BY JANE MUNGABWA – In a surprise revelation that was made at the launch of the ACCESS DENIED: Access to information in Namibia report this week, it came to light that Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) are among the least transparent organisations in Namibia. The...
‘Swapo should abandon the idea of a cyber ministry’
BY GWEN LISTER – I find myself hoping that what many optimistically call the new democratisation of Swapo, will help lead the party out of what I would term the struggle doldrums, the tendency to revert to the thinking of the ‘old days’. But I am...
Transparent governance starts with access to information
BY ZOE TITUS – The struggle for transparent governance can’t be divorced from the social and political climate in Africa, where governments and political elites attempt to curb citizens’ access to information on critical issues, in violation of their...
Why Multi-stakeholderism in Cybersecurity?
BY FREDERICO LINKS – It became crystal clear at the ‘cybersecurity conference for members of parliament’ on Monday that the level of knowledge and discussions of cybersecurity issues are still quite low in Namibia. Worryingly so, in fact. The...
Government to clarify fees paid to UK-based lawyers
MEDIA STATEMENT ACTION Coalition calls on the Government of the Republic of Namibia to clarify the fees paid to UK-based lawyers for legal advice in the context of Namibia’s demands for genocide reparations from Germany The ACTION Coalition is made up of a number of...
Ombudsman demands access to info law
Government’s refusal to publicly release the land resettlement list was criticised by Ombudsman John Walters on Thursday at the official commemoration of International Day for Universal Access to Information in Windhoek. Walters made the criticism at the Namibia...
Making a case for access to information
ACTION members Frederico Links, Gwen Lister and Zoe Titus make a case for access to information ahead of the commemoration of International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) on September 28, 2017. Access to Information For All GWEN LISTER Some may think...
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