Today's world implies daily activities, private as well as public, requiring growing processing and flow of personal data which, while offering a wealth of opportunities in all activities of the society, poses risks to fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals, such as their rights to private life, and therefore needs to be addressed with solid protection frameworks.
Conscious that providing protection to individuals in the digital age, while ensuring an uninterrupted flow of data across borders, is a crucial factor for an inclusive growth, a steadily growing number of African countries are wishing to develop legal and institutional framework to ensure that their populations benefit of an appropriate protection of their personal data.
In the framework of its close relationship with the African Network of Data Protection Authorities since its inception, the Council of Europe co-organises with the Network (for its members and observers and a number of guest countries) a series of monthly on line workshops on a selection of themes of particular relevance to the African region, on the basis of the principles set forth by Convention 108+. With the contribution of recognised data protection experts, the seminars will be a useful source of information and literacy for the data protection authorities of countries in Africa. It will support the African Network in the affirmation and strengthening of its important role for its members and observers, demonstrating its active engagement and concrete contribution to the discussions currently underway in the African countries.
Participants
The seminars will enable the active participation of representatives of the data protection authorities’ members of the Network as well as of observers, and also be open to any representative of national authorities that are interested in advancing data protection in their respective countries.
Resources
Upcoming Workshops
Workshop 2: From cradle to grave: issues, challenges and considerations of national digital identity systems
Speakers
- Alenka Prvinšek Persoglio, Vice President Interact4c
- Grace Mutungu, Research Fellow, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law, Strathmore University, Kenya
- Dorothy Mukasa, Chief Executive Officer, Unwanted Witness Uganda
Experts
- Patrick Walshe, Privacy Matters
- Sylvia Appiah, Information Governance Solutions
Date and time
- Tuesday, 8 December 2020, 15:00 GMT+1
Duration and language
- 2h 30min | English & French
Presentations
- The right to privacy: a challenge for the digitisation of "legal identity"?
- Human rights impact assessments for digital ID programmes: the case of Kenya
- Digital ID, exclusion and human rights in Uganda
Past Workshops
Workshop 1: The right to data protection in the digital age
Speakers
- Joseph Cannatacci, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy
- Yves Poullet, Professor Emeritus, UNamur
- Faiza Seidu-Adam, GirlyTech NGO
Experts
- Patrick Walshe, Privacy Matters
- Sylvia Appiah, Information Governance Solutions
Date and time
- Thursday, 5 November 2020 | 15:00 GMT+1
Duration and language
- 2h 30min | English & French
Presentations