The Department of International Law (DIL) of the OAS Secretariat of Legal Affairs participated in the International Conference “Advances and challenges in transparency and access to public information”, organized by the National Authority for Transparency and Access to Information Public (ANTAIP) and the Center for Studies in Justice and Human Rights (CEJDH) of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (MINJUSDH) of Peru on October 23 and 24.

This event, which had more than 300 participants, addressed topics such as document management, open data, the reuse of information and artificial intelligence as preludes to the exercise of the right of access to public information, the role of transparency in the fight against corruption, the limits of the protection of personal data in transparency obligations and the strengthening of guarantor bodies.

Within the framework of the module entitled Administrative guarantee of the right of access to public information: regarding the role of the guarantor bodies, the DIL provided an overview the provisions of the Inter-American Model Law 2.0 on Access to Public Information which refer to the nature, composition, characteristics and powers that a guarantor body should ideally have. The DIL also recognized the development that these institutions have had since the 2010 Model Law was formulated, highlighting that in the intervening decade between the creation of said instrument and the Model Law 2.0, an evident qualitative leap has been observed in the region in terms of the creation and maintenance of guarantor bodies, but there is still room for improvement, and that Model Law 2.0 is an excellent roadmap.