From the good folks at Public Knowledge: Hollywood’s lobbyists are running all over the Hill to sneak in a copyright filtering provision into the stimulus package. The amendment allow ISPs to “deter� child pornography and copyright infringement through network management techniques. The amendm...

From the News Release: “The Citizen Journalist’s Guide to Open Government,” an extensive multimedia e-learning module to help new media makers understand how to obtain public records and get into public meetings, launched today on the Knight Citizen News Network (www.kcnn.org). The gui...

SafeSearch Filter on Internet Search Engines (PDF; 22 KB) The Office of Inspector General (OIG) continues to receive monthly referrals from the Office of Information Technology (OIT) of employees who have used their SEC- assigned computers to access Internet pornography in violation of Commission ru...

From the AP Article: A proposed Internet filter dubbed the “Great Aussie Firewall” is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries. Consumers, civil-rights activists, engineers, Internet providers and politicians from opposition parties ...

Last February, a Senate hearing highlighted the sorry state of the Founding Fathers projects. While no one questioned the extremely high scholarly quality of the published volumes of papers that have been produced to date, the hearing noted the glacial production pace, high cost, and limited access ...

The Zimbabwe Guardian By Dyke Sithole Sunday, 04 May 2008 THE newly elected MDC Senator for Khumalo constituency, David Coltart says there is need for the transformation of both the public and private media into critical and analytical institutions of the government of the day and opposition politic...

Bush Hits the Delete Button During George W. Bush’s first and second terms, his administration has slowed the release of essential government information to a trickle, in most cases to avoid unflattering public scrutiny. This has gone largely unnoticed by the general public. After all, with a war ...

VOA By Peta Thornycroft 14 January 2008 As of last Friday, Zimbabwean citizens who are also journalists no longer need accreditation or a license to work in their profession. Peta Thornycroft reports for VOA that a number of amendments to existing security, media and electoral regulations have becom...

By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times December 18, 2007 POLOKWANE, SOUTH AFRICA — With a presidential election scheduled for March, the Zimbabwean government Monday announced changes to security and media laws that it has used in the past to suppress demonstrations and close independent newspapers...

Pooling Scholars’ Digital Resources The various and competing efforts to digitize university libraries’ vast holdings have no lack of ambition, but access to documents and copyright issues have been two factors slowing the development of online scholarly repositories. Now, an effort at George Ma...