David Cuillier Gives Keynote Speech at Cameroon Conference on Sharing Climate Change Information

David Cuillier, director of the Brechner Freedom of Information (FOI) Project, gave the keynote address at the 2024 University of Buea (UB) Research Conference in Buea, Cameroon, on Oct. 25, about the importance of information sharing to address climate change.

The conference, hosted at UB, focused on technology in solving climate change and conflict. Cuillier addressed the need for better information sharing in the world, including open-access research publications, closing of the digital divide, stronger open-government laws, and fact-based journalism to combat misinformation.

Cuillier also spoke at a journalism conference hosted by UB on Oct. 24 about the importance of journalists to cover climate change more aggressively.

“Journalism matters more than ever to engage the public in solving climate change,” Cuillier said. While in Cameroon, Cuillier also spoke to college journalism classes and was interviewed by Cameroon public radio.

Cuillier is working with Cameroonian journalism scholar Kingsley Ngange on a book about press freedom and access to information laws in Africa. Twenty-nine nations in Africa have adopted freedom of information laws, almost all stronger than that of the U.S. Ngange served as a Fulbright scholar at the Brechner FOI Project in 2023-24 to craft such laws for Cameroon.

The nonpartisan Brechner FOI Project has provided research and education in the people’s right to access government information since 1977.

Posted: October 29, 2024
Category: Brechner Center, College News
Tagged as: Brechner Freedom of Information Project, Climate change, David Cuillier, FOI