Cape Town, South Africa

Information for Change workshops bring together individuals and organisations involved in generating, publishing, and using information for development from the Western Cape, wider South Africa, the region, and from the rest of Africa. This year the workshop will look at how researchers, activists, and policymakers can work with publishers to enhance policy change. In the 6-hour participatory workshop, participants will share experiences and initiatives with researchers, activists, policymakers, and publishers, and bring their own experience of these roles in the policy change process. The workshop will focus on the role of the publisher/disseminator in facilitating information flow between researchers, agents of policy change, and policymakers. The programme will be organised around these three main groups, and will examine these three general themes: trust and authority; relevance and accessibility; and packaging and dissemination.

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The workshops are intended for non-governmental organisation managers, resource centre organisers, librarians, academics, students, and representatives from research organisations, advocacy organisations, community development organisations, and networks. Admission to the workshop is free but participants will need to pay to enter the 2009 Cape Town Book Fair (ZAR50; students free). Space is limited in the venue so participants are advised to register for a place. Registration deadline is June 5 2009.

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