{"id":122,"date":"2010-08-20T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/08\/20\/ifla-world-report-2010-global-access-to-information\/"},"modified":"2010-09-13T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T20:08:28","slug":"ifla-world-report-2010-global-access-to-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/08\/20\/ifla-world-report-2010-global-access-to-information\/","title":{"rendered":"IFLA World Report 2010: Global access to information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/08\/ifla_worldreport.jpg\" title=\"IFLA World Report Country Map\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/08\/ifla_worldreport.jpg\" alt=\"IFLA World Report Country Map\" align=\"left\" height=\"137\" width=\"234\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifla.org\/\" title=\"ifla.org\">International Federation of Library Associations<\/a> (IFLA) just released its new <a href=\"http:\/\/ifla-world-report.org\/\" title=\"IFLA World Report\">World Report<\/a> which analyzes freedom of information and freedom of expression in 122 countries, in the form of a country-by-country fully searchable database, complete with <a href=\"http:\/\/ifla-world-report.org\/cgi-bin\/static.ifla_wr.cgi?dynamic=1&amp;d=ifla_wr_browse&amp;page=query&amp;interface=map\" title=\"World Report map interface\">graphical map interface<\/a>.\u00a0 The report includes <a href=\"http:\/\/ifla-world-report.org\/cgi-bin\/static.ifla_wr.cgi?dynamic=1&amp;d=ifla_wr_browse&amp;page=query&amp;interface=map&amp;popups_init=1&amp;query_type=POPUPS\" title=\"World Report question-oriented interface\">questions<\/a> of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internet access in libraries and freedom of access to information;<\/li>\n<li>Copyright; and<\/li>\n<li>The role of libraries in universal primary education and environmental sustainability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report was developed by a team at the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.up.ac.za\/index.asp\" title=\"University of Pretoria\">University of Pretoria<\/a> in South Africa, led by Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobcatsss2008.org\/programme\/speakers\/164.en.html\" title=\"Theo Bothma bio\">Theo Bothma<\/a> and contains details of the library environment in 122 countries.\u00a0 The analysis of the data shows that, on the one hand, there are still many countries where violations of intellectual freedom occur \u2014 such incidents were reported in 109 of the 122 countries \u2014 while on the other hand, many individual libraries have implemented innovative projects to improve access to information.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) just released its new World Report which analyzes freedom of information and freedom of expression in 122 countries, in the form of a country-by-country fully searchable database, complete with graphical map interface.\u00a0 The report includes questions of: Internet access in libraries and freedom of access to information; Copyright; <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/08\/20\/ifla-world-report-2010-global-access-to-information\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4537],"tags":[618,619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}