...Roxana Argandoña; The Andean Information Network Until Morales, governments in Bolivia did not care about the people. Morales started out as the sports secretary for the San Francisco coca union in Chapare, but he was promoted because he was such an active participant in union meetings. He rose...

... had in the past him Yuin Chien planted bombs, and staged arson attacks First Secretary (Information) and other violent and illegal acts. A booby- Embassy of Singapore. 88 WORLD POLICY JOURNAL • SUMER 2001 ...

...Kavitha Rajagopalan World Policy Institute fellow and author Kavitha Rajagopalan investigates the informal water economy of Chennai, a city in southern India. She finds that the government’s failure to dependably distribute clean water has made black-market dealings a necessity...

... The world’s problems are rarely new. There are always precedents that should inform today’s most crucial decisions. World Policy Journal asked five experts from the United Kingdom, Burundi, Chile, Turkey, and Venezuela what lessons from history keep being forgotten. Copyright © 2016 World Policy...

... information held by governments needs to see the light of day. Personnel files of government employees, tax records of its citizens, sensitive internal agency memoranda, measures to control crime, and those to advance diplomacy and national defense should not be available to the media or the public. The devil...

...-fence specific territories and colonies. A more popular strategy is to sign a treaty about exchange of bank account information while knowing ratification will never happen or not until a distant future, blaming domestic political rifts for the delay. An equivalent tactic is to run national...

... Copyright © 2018 World Policy Institute 2018 The following definitions are taken from the glossary of The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality , a two-part book that emerged as part of an ongoing research project by University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies...

... Information School, is studying appropriation of communication technologies by populations in low- and middle-income countries. Tohir Pallaev, student of international and comparative politics at the American University of Central Asia, is a journalist interested in nationalism and ethnic conflicts...

...). They use the same cards to vote and to file their taxes, a process that takes three to five minutes. Estonians’ health records, house and car registration, and educational information are all online, cross-referenced and accessible to them as well as to the government, their bank, and their doctors...

.... To keep web services and products, not to mention the information they carry, both transparent and global, companies and countries need to resist pressure to fragment the Internet. The further localization of the Internet is likely. Soon, we will end up with a Balkanization of what was once a global...

... to activists who see the list as a powerful tool in the fight against slave labor. In focusing on disclosure, transparency laws reflect a belief that the power of information and the leverage of consumer demand can help prevent human trafficking. Armed with knowledge about companies’ efforts to eradicate...

...Amelia Andersdotter WPJ: Thank you so much for joining us today. • Andersdotter: It’s important to be able to question oneself and question the information that one is receiving and the distribution. It’s essential to think about the distribution and who has power, what it means to have...

.... Business groups information law. and the conservative middle class in the The road Mexico took to reach this mo­ north saw the historically rightist p a n as a ment was a long and bumpy one. Vicente vehicle for change, at least in local and state Fox’s election in July...

... when they are about 10 years old. In a country like Nicaragua, where 46 percent of the population lives on less than $1.15 a day, this disparity in access to information only widens the gap between rich and poor. The lack of information results in higher birthrates for the most impoverished...

... was disappointed, but not surprised, to learn that Mr. X’s stories still informed MONUSCO’s understanding of ADF and that MONUSCO’s analysts continue to view ADF as the puppet master behind all of the violence in Beni. I challenged the analysts in the way I should have addressed Mr. X a year ago—with direct...

.... So long as the service is directed at foreigners and not primarily used by Chinese audiences, tight control of information appears to be of secondary importance to championing business abroad. And then there’s the accompanying soft power these products provide. In theory, the Chinese government could...

... Africa’s informal settlements. In her community of Mlolongo, a population of nearly 300,000 slum-dwellers, there are more than 30 similar home-based day care centers, with new ones opening each day. They constitute an entrepreneurial, community-based solution to a problem unmet by the public sector...

...Andrew Clement Andrew Clement is a professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, where he coordinates the Information Policy Research Program and leads the IXmaps.ca research project. © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Photo...

... of the population followed foreign news “in­ I ’m just a singer of simple songs tently” and that 90 percent of that group I ’m not a real political man say consistently that it is important that the I watch C N N but I’m not sure / could news contains information about other Tell...

... its benefits, social media began to exhibit its shortcomings quite early. Its overwhelming flaw was that it was powered by people. While an excellent medium for crowd-sourcing information and urging followers into collective action, it’s not a broadcasting network. Rather, it’s a two-way conversation...