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"Morocco is no stranger to the global problem of corruption and the associated lack of public trust in the country’s administration. Public pressure, especially during the Arab Spring, resulted in a constitutional amendment in 2011 and people being given the right of access to information. Citizen ... more

Supporting Access to Information: A Practical Guide for EU Delegations

Brussels: Media4Democracy (2019), 101 pp.
"The Guide shows how support for the principle of public access to information and the practical implementation of access to information (ATI) laws reinforce the EU’s work around the world in promoting participatory democracy, good governance, freedom of expression and other fundamental rights, an ... more

Direito á informação em África: Manual para a sociedade civil

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Centro Africano para a Liberdade de Informação (AFIC) (2019), 151 pp.
"Este manual destina-se a apresentar um quadro de formação para as OSC envolvidas em trabalho de apoio à promoção e protecção dos direitos humanos. O manual estabelece uma norma para o conteúdo de formação sobre o direito à informação para as OSC em África. O manual também serve de fe ... more

Direito á informação em África: Manual para jornalistas

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC);Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) (2019), 75 pp.
"Este manual de formação visa alargar os conhecimentos dos participantes sobre o direito à informação; estimular uma interpretação do direito à informação como ferramenta para o jornalismo de investigação; desenvolver a capacidade dos participantes na promoção do direito à informaçã ... more
"The central aim of this study is to unpack the major trends in the field of access to information laws and their implementation. In order to understand the trends, the report examines the activities of trendsetters. It focuses on awareness-raising by UNESCO, Member State recommendations in the Univ ... more

The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons

Capetown; Ottawa: African Minds;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2019), xiii, 574 pp.
"A decade ago, open data was more or less just an idea, emerging as a rough point of consensus for action among pro-democracy practitioners, internet entrepreneurs, open source advocates, civic technology developers, and open knowledge campaigners. Calls for “open data now” offered a powerful cr ... more
"Las instituciones públicas subnacionales inciden directamente en la calidad de vida de los ciudadanos de todo el país, ya que cuentan con autonomía de gestión y administración de sus ingresos. En ese sentido, la transparencia es el principio por el cual los ciudadanos conocen la información b ... more
"Queremos entender la comunicación y el acceso a la información como medios para la conquista de otros derechos. Hay innumerables rutas que podríamos tomar para llegar a este destino; la elegida acá es la que entiende la comunicación como un ecosistema complejo que debe estar imbricado en la co ... more
"How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? Society and the Internet provides key readings for students, scholars, and anyone with a serious interest in understanding the interactions of the Internet and society. Spaw ... more
"In this publication, we focus on the people who make right to information laws come to life, and who use them as tools to fight corruption. In the following pages, you will find the stories of citizens from 10 countries across the Asia Pacific region who have used their right to information to dema ... more
"The toolkit encompasses a broad variety of issues, which should be considered by judicial actors in the course of their work to protect human rights. It covers legal standards of freedom of expression according to international and regional instruments and core texts and surveys pertinent jurisprud ... more

Media Ownership Monitor Tanzania

Reporters Without Borders;Media Council of Tanzania (2018), 739 pp.
"Only a few media companies have a predominant market position and thus a potentially high influence on public opinion in Tanzania. Whereas the regulatory framework should in theory safeguard media pluralism and prevent media concentration, it shows considerable gaps in practice. Moreover, the legal ... more

La communication des organisations publiques

Bruxelles: De Boeck, 2nd ed. (2017), 304 pp.
"This report reviews the current state of the right of access to information (RTI) across the world to provide a baseline for future assessments over the lifetime of the 2030 Agenda. It finds that there has been significant incorporation of the right in well over half of UN Member States. The right ... more
"This research looks at the information needed by in-country development stakeholders with an emphasis on accountability actors including civil society organizations, charities, government workers, and the media. To collect this information, semi-structured interviews were conducted in Sierra Leone ... more

Estándares internacionales de libertad de expresión: Guía básica para operadores de justicia en América Latina

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 39 pp.
"[...] es una herramienta indispensable para operadores de justicia que tratan casos sobre la libertad de expresión. La guía, producida conjuntamente por la UNESCO y la oficina del Relator Especial para Libertad de Expresión (RELE) y escrita por Silvia Chocarro, es un mapa esencial de los estánd ... more

How the Bangladeshi Media Use the RTI Act for Free and Qualitative Reporting: Asessment Report

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC);Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2016), 17 pp.
"The study finds an overall positive attitude about the benefits of the RTI Act and potentials of its use by the journalists as an effective tool for producing quality in-depth and investigative reports. An opinion prevails that the act has already created some good examples of curbing corruption an ... more

Gobierno Abierto en América Latina

Paris: OECD (2015), 283 pp.
"Los países de América Latina han implementado importantes reformas de gobierno abierto durante los últimos años. La combinación de los esfuerzos a nivel nacional con el soporte que los países han obtenido por parte de la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto (AGA) ha sido benéfica para lograr ava ... more

Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe

Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2015), x, 552 pp.
"This is a book about free speech narratives. Stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means. 1989 and 2011 are only two recent (in historic perspective) turning points when freedom of speech and freed ... more