Date: 24/05/2021 Patricia González, Legal Researcher and Campaigner at Access Info Europe, participated in the international webinar "Best Practices of Citizen Participation in Improving Public Information during the Pandemic COVID-19", hosted by the following organisations: Instituto de Acceso a la Información Pública de Honduras (IAPI); Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID) en Honduras; Programa de la Unión Europea con América Latina (EUROsociAL+); y Red de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información (RTA).

Date:  21/05/2021 In the framework of Open Government Week, held from 17-21 May, the Spanish National Institute of Public Administration (INAP) hosted an event entitled Open Government and the Media. Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info Europe, attended this workshop which was coordinated by Cristina Monge Lasierra, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Zaragoza and Vice-President of the Open Government Forum. The event was presented by Consuelo Sánchez Naranjo, Director General of INAP, and Olivié Bayón Céspedes, Director General of Public Governance of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function. Guests included senior government officials, journalists,

Date:  18/05/2021 Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info Europe, has participated in the round table "Transparency and future challenges" as part of the conference "2021 If you participate, you decide Madrid", organised by the Madrid City Council in the framework of the Open Government Week. The event, moderated by the Director General of Citizen Participation of the Madrid City Council, Maria Pía Junquera, also included the participation of: Rafael Ayala González, member of Modelos de Gobierno Abierto. Antonio Relaño, Director General of Transparency of Madrid City Council. Dolores González Pastor, member of APRI, Association of Institutional Relations Professionals. Olga Quirós,

Date: 13/05/2021 Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info, participated in the seminar Accountability in complex democracies: the role and relevance of the accountability of the Prime Minister to Spanish society, organised by the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC). This seminar kicks off a series of discussion events on specific aspects of accountability, with the aim of obtaining from them rigorous and useful information to improve the accountability of the Spanish government as much as possible. She was joined by the following speakers: Francisco Martin Aguirre. Director of the Department of Planning and Monitoring of Government Activity. Presidency