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 ...

AI is making faster access to critical information a key driver of innovation and competitive advantage. Innovation has always depended on information. What has changed is the speed at which ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Breaking North Korea's information blockade remains essential. Without access to outside information, there is little ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...