PILDAT is pleased to host a two-day Regional Conference on the Right to Information in South Asia, which is being hosted in collaboration with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information (RTI) Commission and the Punjab Information Commission in Islamabad on Wednesday, March 16 and Thursday, March 17, 2016. The Conference is the first-ever event in South Asia that has been organised to generate informed discourse on RTI between relevant stakeholders in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Through the Conference, government officials, media persons, trainers, academics and civil society activists will be provided a platform to share their experiences in supporting RTI within their home countries and enhance regional cooperation for the strengthening of such local efforts. Participants will also discuss solutions to the challenges faced by stakeholders of the RTI movement in Pakistan by taking stock of the approaches other South Asian countries have taken to address these challenges. This year’s Regional Conference on the Right to Information in South Asia, called Understanding the Silent Revolution, includes a series of Panel Discussions in which nationally and internationally renowned speakers and panelists will discuss Regional Conference themes, both among themselves and with the wider public. The Regional Conference is being organised by PILDAT under the More Effective Right-To-Information at Federal and Provincial (Sindh and Punjab) levels project, for which it has received financial support from the Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI) under the Enhanced Democratic Accountability and Civic Engagement project.