RTI Convention (draft as of 7th Oct)

Theme: Empowering people through information for shared prosperity/Promoting integrity

through transparent and accountable information/
At a glance:
9:30 am to 10:40 am Inaugural session
10:40 am to 11:00 am Touring around RTI stalls
11:00 am to 11:30 am Refreshments
11:30 am to 01:00 pm Plenary session: Sharing findings of RTI Survey 2019
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Lunch break

2:00 pm to 3:30 pm Parallel session 1: Using RTI for strengthening transparency social safety net
programs
Parallel session 2: Using ICT for promoting RTI among women, youth and
media
3:30 pm to 04:00 pm Refreshments
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Plenary and feedback from parallel sessions
5:30 pm Closing
Opening Carnival Hall
• 9.30 am – 10.40 am Inaugural session
• National Anthem
• Chair: Ms. Shaheen Anam, Executive Director, MJF
and Convener, RTI Forum Bangladesh
• Guest of Honor: Mr. Martuza Ahmed
Chief Information Commissioner
• Guest of Honor: Dr. Mercy Miyang Tembon,
Country Director, the World Bank
Bangladesh and Bhutan
• Guest of Honor: Ms. Judith Herbertson
• Country Director, DFID
• Chief Guest: Dr. Hasan Mahmud
MOI Minister
• Concluding remarks of Chair
Plenary after morning tea
• Sharing of findings of the RTI Survey 2019
• Chair: Mr. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, ndc Secretary, Coordination and
Reforms Unit, Cabinet Division (Agreed over phone, doubtful)
• Panel Presentation:
• Rezwan-ul-Alam, Director, MJF
• Hasibur Rahman, ED,MRDI
• Monzurul Haque, Chair and MD, OrgQuest
• Discussant 1: Dr. Iftekharuzzaman, ED, TIB
• Discussant 2: Shamsul Bari, Chair, RIB (unwilling)
• Syeed Ahaamed, CEO, IID??? (No response yet)/Afsan Chowdhury??
• Secretary, Information Commission
• RTI Focal point of Cabinet Division (not approached)
• Plenary discussion
• Chair’s concluding remarks
Parallel session 1, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
• Using RTI for strengthening social safety net programmes for the
benefit of marginalized communities
• Chair: Professor Sadeka Halim, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Dhaka
• Presenter: Ruhi Naz, coordinator, RIB
• Discussant 1: DG, Social welfare??
• Discussant 2: Dr. Nafis?/
• Closing remark by Chair
Parallel session 2 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
• Using ICT for mobilizing women, youth and media for RTI
• Chair: Professor Golam Rahman, former CIC
• Presenter: Dr. Ananya Raihan, Managing Director, i-Social
• Discussant 1: Afsan Chowdhury??/ Farida Yasmin , GS, National Press
Club??Moshiul Alam, Assistant Editor, Prothom Alo/Investigative
journalist like: JAM or Arup
• Discussant 2: Hasibur Rahman, ED, MRDI
Concluding from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
• Chair: Ms. Shaheen Anam, Executive Director, MJF
• Feedback from parallel session
• Guest of Honor: Dr. George Addo Larbi, Practice Manager
• Governance, the World Bank

• Guest of Honor: Ms. Suraiya Begum, ndc, Information Commissioner

• Guest of Honor: Mr. Khondker Anwarul Islam (unlikely)
• Senior Secretary, Bridges Division

• Guest of Honor: Aroma Dutta, MP

• Chief Guest: Mr. Abdul Mannan, MP, Minister of Planning
• (delay likely due to ECNEC meeting)
• Vote of thanks by the MJF