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Colleagues from across the organisation share their experiences and involvement in the ICO's ongoing contributions to the upholding of information rights across the globe. 

4 October 2016, John-Pierre Lamb

The ICO was recently invited to Tbilisi to visit our counterparts at the Office of the Personal Data Protection Inspector (OPDPI) of Georgia, with the support of the Good Governance Fund - a DFID/FCO capacity-building programme. My colleague Vicki Heath and I, from the ICO’s Good Practice team, accepted this request.

Data protection law was enacted in Georgia in 2012, with the OPDPI only coming into existence in July 2013. They are now keen to establish an audit service, which was the reason we were invited to assist. We spent three days with our Georgian colleagues sharing our knowledge, experiences, methodologies and processes in order to help them create solutions and develop suitable audit services. We had some useful and productive discussions and were able to make a number of recommendations. The OPDPI will now be considering how best to implement these recommendations in order to support their strategic objectives.

Our hosts' hospitality was exceptional and it was a pleasure to spend time in such a vibrant city. It was also great to be able to support the work of such a young data protection authority and there are plans to explore future cooperation between our respective offices in other areas.

 

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