Committee on Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (CAIFE)

PRESS RELEASE: for immediate release
April 1996

In response to a letter sent by IFLA’s President, Robert Wedgeworth to all of IFLA’s national association members calling for nominations for the Executive Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (CAIFE). The ED had a first discussion with Tony Evans during the December meeting during which the President announced the list of candidates, based on range of expertise and geographical coverage, to be approached for membership.

Europe (West and North)

Ms Birgit Dankert, Germany

Ms Gunilla Jonsson, Sweden

Soren Moller, Denmark

Ray Templeton, UK

Ms France Vernotte, France

Europe (Central, South and East)

Ms Pilar Dominguez, Spain

Ms Tatjana E. Feoktistova, Russia

Tayfun Gülle, Turkey

Ms Aleksandra Horvat, Croatia

Kalju Tammaru, Estonia

Ms Judith Szilvassy, Hungary

Ona Voveriene, Lithuania

Middle East

Shawky Salem, Egypt

Ora Nebenzahl, Israel

Africa

A. O. Banjo, Nigeria

Ms Alice Bulogosi, Kenya

Ms Olatungie Campbell, Sierra Leone

Ms M. M. Moshoeshoe Chadzingwa, Lesotho

Mohammed Benjelloun, Morocco

Seth Manaka, South Africa

Far East

Prirampai Premsamit, Thailand

Ms Mary Leong, Hong Kong

Hiroshi Kawamura, Japan

Subhas Biswas, India

Northern America

Ms Monica Ertel, USA

Ms Susan Martin, USA

Middle and Southern America and the Caribbean

Ms Virginia Bettancourt, Venezuela

Ms Clara Budnik, Chile

Ms Stephaney Ferguson, Jamaica

Ms Rosa Maria Fernandez de Zamora, Mexico

Ms Christina Santos, Cuba

Australia and the Pacific

Alex Bryne, Australia

CAIFE is chaired by Tony Evans, President of the Commonwealth Library Association, and former member of the Executive Board. Warren Horton, member of the Executive Board, is the EB’s liaison person. Resource person appointed are Robert P. Doyle, former Director of the Library/Book Fellows Programme, ALA, USA and Ms Marianna Tax Choldin, USA.

CAIFE is charged with gathering membership opinion, reviewing expert advice and advising IFLA as to how it should implement its commitment to access to information and freedom of expression. CAIFE will avoid purely political issues, and would begin by categorizing types of problems which occur and which would fall under IFLA auspices. The Ad Hoc Committee will conduct its business via e-mail, fax and correspondence and is expected to complete its work in time to report to the IFLA Council in Copenhagen in August 1997. There will be formal meetings scheduled tin Beijing during the 62nd IFLA General Conference, one of which will be an Open Forum at which conference delegates may pose questions to the Committee and discuss the work of the Committee.