Institutional, policy and legal barriers to information support for development projects

Perkins, Mark Institutional, policy and legal barriers to information support for development projects. IFLA Journal, 1997, vol. 23, n. 1, pp. 23-29. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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This is an updated version of a paper presented to the ALP/Government Libraries Workshop at IFLA '96. While the Internet is touted as the solution to many problems including developmental the article sets out to show how such problems do not have technical solutions as the problems themselves are social. Issues addressed include censorship, privacy, copyright, training, literacy and the political/economic power to utilize information.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Cebsorship, privacy, copyright, institutional context,
Subjects: E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society.
E. Publishing and legal issues. > EF. Censorship.
Depositing user: Mark Perkins
Date deposited: 11 Aug 2005
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:01
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/6659

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