Global Partners is travelling to Egypt at the end of this month to kick off its Transparency and Open Information
project, funded by the Arab Partnership Initiative under the FCO. GPA will be working the its project partner AFA
(the Arab Forum for Alternatives) to help set up an information taskforce. The task force will be made up of civil
society, academics and public officials. They will draw on experiences from the Global South, specifically Kenya
and South Africa, to draw up an action plan around access to information and open data systems for Egyptians.
