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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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, ...

When citizens know the truth, governments work better. When information flows freely, societies thrive. And when secrecy is replaced with sunlight, lives are saved. Credible information is a ...

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 ...

In today’s digital transformation era, the free exchange of scientific information is essential for addressing global challenges such as climate change, pandemics, and the ethical governance of ...