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Internet governance is an issue that few people understand, but nearly everybody has a stake in. Thus, when reports emerged last week that talks on Internet governance at the World Conference on International Telecommunications, had broken down, the story made major international news. Opposition to moves by the ITU had

Centre for Law and Democracy is pleased to announce its participation in the Speak Justice: Voices Against Impunity Campaign. The Speak Justice Campaign is a global initiative to counter the prevailing climate of impunity for those who attach journalists. More than 660 journalists have been murdered since 1992. Reporting on

Sheila Coronel’s paper, Measuring Openness: A Survey of Transparency Ratings and the Prospects for a Global Index, is the first serious piece of research about the systems for assessing government openness which have mushroomed in recent years, alongside a corresponding growth in overall interest in openness. It is useful inasmuch

Below is an Expert Review of the ELLA materials on Transparency and Access to Information, specifically the Guide on the Latin American Approach to Transparency and Access to Information, and the Practice Briefs on Building the Legal Framework to Support Transparency and Access to Information in Latin America, Fighting Corruption

Google has announced plans to recalibrate their search algorithms to lower the rankings of websites that are the subject of “valid copyright removal notices”. It’s something of a surprise move, considering the way Google weathered previous storms over their ranking system by essentially claiming their algorithms were sacrosanct. In 2009,