FOIAFest 2019 – a Africa interest event taking place on 2019-11-05 00:00:00 in United States
Join us for the second annual FOIAFest!
Part of GVSU's Big Data Initiative, this year's event will be hosted at DeVos Place by the Big Data Ignite conference.
Highlights of the daylong event revolving around freedom-of-information-act laws and transparency efforts include the following:
• Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel will talk about FOIA law in Michigan and the components of an effective request. (10:30-11:10)
• Grand Valley alumnus Marisa Kwiatkowski, who was part of the team of Indy Star reporters who broke the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal story, will lead a hands-on session for those people who want to learn how to submit effective requests. (1:30-2:15)
• A local and international water data hackathon that will bring together journalists and computer scientists from the United States and Africa. Participants will identify, scrape, and clean water datasets. The resulting data will assist a Grand Valley-led investigative team of people from more than 25 countries on five continents.
We hope to see you there!
Contact
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein at (312) 532-7902 or kellyloj@gvsu.edu
at Grand Valley State University – Allendale Campus 1 Campus Drive Allendale United States – Add your South African Event here.
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