More on the Office of Global Internet Freedom....Proponents of the bill to create the OGIF argue that to help advance freedom and democracy around the world, the U.S. needn't provide content, as it did with the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, but merely free access to the unfiltered internet. In practice this means providing tools to enable internet users in every country to bypass national censorship and filtering systems. (PS: Good idea but will it pass? How interested is the U.S. in lifting worldwide restrictions on access to information? Last week Reports Without Borders released the results of a global survey showing that the U.S. ranks 17th in freedom of the press.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/30/2002 11:42:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
