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 ...

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 ...

The Pentagon's decision to seal off its press office from journalists marks the latest escalation in a sustained campaign to ...

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, ...

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 ...

Keep up with knowledge needs in developing countries: Libraries must be cognisant of the amount of illiteracy still prevalent in some communities among developing countries and therefore come up with ...

The International Day for Universal Access to Information was proclaimed on 15 October 2019 at the 74th UN General Assembly to be held on 28 September. The global celebrations in Oxford, United ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modern software user interfaces (UIs) contain icons that remind us of a bygone era of paper-based information management. There are "paper clips" for file attachments and little "file folders" to ...