From the report: "Access to
information, despite wide intellectual acceptance, is still a struggle for many
in various quarters of the world. In today’s era there exist constraints in the
way information is shared; dividing continents based on the way information is
accessible to its people. This paper strives to understand the underpinnings of
the accessibility to information in the human rights perspective, with a
special mention of the current debate on the accessibility of the Internet
on the lines of concepts which constitute emerging access to knowledge
coalition. The arguments of the present paper take the following form: it
begins with an introduction to the oft-debatable access to information
question; goes on to elucidate the view of various scholars on why information
needs to be free and extends the aspect of freedom to information to the human
rights paradigm; then expounds the activism of ‘access to knowledge’ advocates
for access to information; and finally talks about European Union’s
legalization of access to information on the internet
as a ‘fundamental right’ before the conclusion." Read more
