Algeria creates independent commission to prepare new information draft bill

Algerian communication minister Nacer Mhel announced on Wednesday the creation of an independent commission to prepare the new information law.

• “This commission which includes experts in audio-visual, information and communication will present proposals in consultation with journalists, teachers and publishers,” Nacer Mhel told a conference in Mostaghanem (west of Algiers).
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• “The draft bill will be presented to the cabinet for approbation within three months,” he added.
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• “This law will enable to concretise a modern practice of information. That would achieve a sustainable development of the country.”
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• The minister called on communication students to learn the new technologies as the “future will be to new technologies including social communication websites.”
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• Mhel told reporters a national meeting will be soon held with journalists to concretise Algerian President Bouteflika’s decisions as part of reforms he had announced on April 15^th and in the last cabinet meeting.