Each year, thousands of refugees flee the oppressive North Korean regime. Today, nearly 30,000 such defectors live in South Korea.[1] Their stories attest to the important role that access to outside ...

From Dedicated Terminals and Dial-Up Service to the Power of the Enterprise Web Until the late 1960s, school districts had no access to computing power, electronic teaching resources or centralized ...

International human rights law specifically recognizes the right to access to information. Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, echoing article 19 of the Universal ...

As I was gathering books for this column, I saw a title that needed reshelving: The Information-Poor in America, by Thomas Childers (Scarecrow, 1975). Yes, it was written a whole library career ago, ...

Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO has announced “access to information in times of crisis” as the theme of the 2020 edition of the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) ...

Charles Byekwaso uses a computer that has audio. Many people with seeing impairments are unable to access much-needed information on radio, TV and newspapers. Photo by Stephen Otage In 2006, when the ...

The unprecedented Covid-19 (Covid) virus has brought to the forefront many challenges associated with exclusive rights, information sharing, and innovation. How do we get effective diagnostics, ...

Easy access to quality medical care is considered a benchmark standard of a first world nation, distinguishing it from developing countries. In such healthcare systems, high-quality treatment is ...

Zambia has become the latest country to enact an Access to Information law, as President Hakainde Hichilema signed the bill last month, more than 20 years since it was first introduced in parliament.

This Standard applies to everyone who accesses RIT Information Resources, whether affiliated with RIT or not, whether on campus or from remote locations, including but not limited to students, faculty ...