FAIFE Spotlight

The FAIFE Spotlight focuses on urgent events and gives a fresh analysis of freedom of speech issues. Spotlights are written by FAIFE Committee Members, the Chair or other experts in order to draw attention to an emerging situation. In the information society the sharing of knowledge is essential. If you have an idea for a spotlight topic, please send an email to Louise Cooke.

2013

• Thinkpiece “Libraries, e-Lending and the Future of Public Access to Digital Content
  Philippe Colomb, Hermann Rösch, Amélie Vallotton Preisig  [August 2013]
• Freedom of expression and access to information in Syria today
  Inaam Charaf [August 2013]
• Interview to Saad Eskander, Director of Iraq National Library and Archives (INLA)
  Suvi Kingsley [April 2013]
• Are digital laws making or breaking digital libraries?
  Benjamin White [April 2013]

2012

• Finnish Research Project Censorship and Control in the Internet Age Spotlights
  [July 2012]
• Data driven futures – censorship takes new forms
  Päivikki Karhula [05 June]
• The Library and Freedom of Information Revisited
  Paul Sturges and Vesna Crnogorac [21 May]
• Manga and Libraries in Japan
  Yasuyo INOUYE [17 May]
• Political dismissal of the Director of the National Library of Serbia
  Novica Milic [29 January]
• Policing the Internet is not a Job for a Corporation
  Hanna Nikkanen [18 January]
• The Problem of Blasphemy and Defamation of Religion Laws 
  Paul Sturges [5 January]

2011

• Revisionism and Professional Ethics II
  Guila Cooper [19 December]
• An attempt to understand what the proposed Internet filtering system in Turkey means
  Erkan Saka [19 November]
• Venezuela’s National Library as the Nucleus of a National Library System (IABNSB) in the 20th century and its gradual dismantling in the 21st century
  Anabel Torres [4 July 2011]
• The role of Information Technology in defeating the Arab regimes: Facebook 2-0 Arab Presidents
  Mahmoud Khalifa [29 March]
• The New Press and Media Act in Hungary 
  Kai Ekholm and Tarja Svärd-Ylilehto [18 February]
• What is the effect of WikiLeaks for Freedom of Information? 
  Päivikki Karhula [19 January]