Last week, nearly 1,000 delegates and observers from Commonwealth parliaments came together in Johannesburg, South Africa at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA)’s 59th Annual Conference. The CPA counts more than 17,000 parliamentarians as members from 175 national and sub-national parliaments in 54 countries around the world.
The conference included a workshop entitled, “Governing Democratically in a Tech-Empowered World: Deepening Partnerships Between Parliaments and Parliamentary Monitoring Organisations.” Members of parliament from four countries led a panel discussion, including Hon. Dr. Pambos Papageorgiou (Cyprus), Hon. Dr. Benjamin Kunbour (Ghana), Hon. Junaid Anwar (Pakistan) and Hon. Dave Levac (Ontario, Canada), along with K. Scott Hubli, director of governance programs at the National Democratic Institute.