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National Information Policy: December 2009

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Saturday, December 5, 2009. October brought the annual Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders. The index is compiled every year with input from journalists and media outlets around the world. The report includes information about how the index was compiled, along with the questionnaire which was used by journalists and media outlets. Does the position of any country surprise you? Labels: Access to Information. Wednesday, December 2, 2009. Obama continuing Bush's domestic spying policies?

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National Information Policy: Obama continuing Bush's domestic spying policies???

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009. Obama continuing Bush's domestic spying policies? The Bush presidency appears to be the gift that keeps on giving. Just when we think we've heard the worst, someone like Wayne Madsen comes along and tells us that there is more.from the Obama Administration. Madsen, a political journalist,. Because it all works so wonderfully! Seriously. That's the reason according to NSA insiders. Furthermore, this stuff might actually still be going on. Are we to believe this? I started out ...

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National Information Policy: October 2009

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009. Finland has passed a law making broadband Internet access a legal right of all citizens. By July 2010, all citizens will have a guaranteed right to a 1Mb broadband connection. Naturally a country with only 5 million people will have an easier time implementing such a policy. In the US with our population of 300 million, a guaranteed right to Internet access is pretty unlikely. Friday, October 9, 2009. NTIA announces first states to receive funding for broadband mapping. The p...

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National Information Policy: September 2009

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009. Does Free Wireless Internet Have A Chance? In the months following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin made it a priority to have free wireless internet. Available throughout the city. The local government believed that this would give small businesses a chance to reestablish themselves, even though they may lack a physical location. The service did actually launch in the late part of 2005, but it was taken down. Less than a year later. What happened? I know that t...

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National Information Policy: Reporters Sans Frontieres

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Saturday, December 5, 2009. October brought the annual Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders. The index is compiled every year with input from journalists and media outlets around the world. The report includes information about how the index was compiled, along with the questionnaire which was used by journalists and media outlets. Does the position of any country surprise you? Labels: Access to Information. January 17, 2010 at 5:50 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Information Po...

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National Information Policy: November 2009

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Monday, November 23, 2009. Censorship Culture in Singapore. Newer books were just benign - it was censorship through selection. Rather than having photography books on the shelf that might have significant historical images that involved nudity that they'd then have to remove, the library only ordered books that couldn't possibly been seen as objectionable - like 'Extreme Sports Photography! James Gomez's book, Self-Censorship:Singapore's Shame. Leaves the door to restriction of freedoms wide open. Some ...

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National Information Policy: We Want YOU To Care About National Information Policy

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Sunday, November 22, 2009. We Want YOU To Care About National Information Policy. What is National Information Policy and why should I care? So as librarians, how do we promote democracy? So what is National Information Policy anyway? Well folks,here is a little tidbit from UNESCO. National Information Policies, including considerations of informatics and telematics, are the key to coping with the challenges of the Information Society. There has to be a complete re-examination of traditional informat...

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National Information Policy: International Internet . . .or not?

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Saturday, November 7, 2009. International Internet . . .or not? Since the dawn of the internet,domain names have been dominated by Latin characters. This has severely restricted internet accessibility to those that are not familiar with and did not know how to convert their domain names into Latin characters. Recently, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN. How will this affect people that do not speak Russian, Chinese, and Arabic, and do not have keyboards with these characters?

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National Information Policy: Censorship Culture in Singapore

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Monday, November 23, 2009. Censorship Culture in Singapore. Newer books were just benign - it was censorship through selection. Rather than having photography books on the shelf that might have significant historical images that involved nudity that they'd then have to remove, the library only ordered books that couldn't possibly been seen as objectionable - like 'Extreme Sports Photography! James Gomez's book, Self-Censorship:Singapore's Shame. Leaves the door to restriction of freedoms wide open. Some ...