...David McMenemy Richard A.   Chapman and Michael   Hunt . Freedom of Information: Local Government and Accountability . Farnham : Ashgate Publishing   2010 . £50.00 (hardback) 174 pp. 978 0754679772 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Democracy...

... research and publications on curriculum design and management. Findings The paper posits that the SCECSAL region is already in the Information and Knowledge Society (IKS) and that appropriate information and knowledge (IK) are pre‐requisites to the promotion and sustainability of democracy and good...

... be contacted at: thompsonki@missouri.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Information facilities Information services Information literacy Libraries Democracy United States of America The relationship between democratic success and information is exemplified in the work...

...Stuart James Edited by Bettina   Fabos . The Commercialized Web: Challenges for Libraries and Democracy . Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science   2005 . 519‐698 pp.   US$33.00  Library Trends, Vol. 53 No. 4 ©...

... by such information professionals and educators is vital in delivering the democratic potential of the internet. Design/methodology/approach An opinion piece based on current and recent trends in thinking about digital citizenship, the internet and democracy. Findings Hopeful initial visions of the impact...

...Nick Joint Although well‐intentioned, it is not naïve. On the one hand we have optimists about digital democracy such as David Winston (“Digital technology, I believe, has the potential to change the world order radically, much as Martin Luther's rough parchment … did … ” p. 142), while...

...John Abdul Kargbo Democracy assumes that people have access to facts and opinions from a wide range of sources. Democratic decision making, be it at a local or national level, depends on equality of access to information. Sierra Leone has only recently had her democracy restored and professional...

... technology Information systems Communication technology Education Democracy United Kingdom There is a serious problem, if not quite a crisis, in our contemporary political culture. Voter turnout is at an all‐time low, parties sometimes struggle even to get enough candidates to contest available...