About the Information Program
The Information Program works to increase public access to knowledge, facilitate civil society communication, and protect civil liberties and the freedom to communicate in the digital environment.
View ArticleAccess to Knowledge
The Information Program supports initiatives which enhance access to the knowledge-based public goods that underpin open societies, especially in the disadvantaged parts of the world.
View ArticleCivil Society Communication
Civil Society Communication provides support to organizations within the OSI network in their use of information tools and tactics, and builds global expertise to address the information and...
View ArticleOpen Information Policy
The Open Information Policy initiative aims to broaden communications access in the most disadvantaged countries and to protect the freedom to communicate in the digital environment.
View ArticleWhy We Support Creative Commons
What is Creative Commons licensing, and why are the Open Society Foundations encouraging its use? An interview with Vera Franz of the Information Program.
View ArticleOpen Educational Resources: From Practice to Policy
As part of the 2011 Creative Commons Global Summit, Information Program senior program manager Melissa Hagemann hosts a session reviewing the basics of OER and leading discussion of policy developments.
View ArticleThe Spy Files: An Interview with Eric King
The internet is a powerful organizing tool, but it also enables digital surveillance and censorship by repressive regimes-much of it facilitated by products manufactured by Western companies.
View ArticleTen Years On, Researchers Embrace Open Access
Troves of scholarly research and information - which had previously been the domain of elite universities and wealthy countries which could afford it - are now freely available to all, thanks to the...
View ArticleParliamentary Power to the People: Analyzing Online and Offline Strategies in...
This report asks how parliamentary monitoring organizations can leverage online and offline strategies to make legislative information of greater social and political utility.
View ArticleForensic Genetics: A Global Human Rights Challenge
The use of DNA profiling by law enforcement agencies has exploded around the world. But while technologies to interrogate DNA have become more sophisticated, privacy and human rights are increasingly...
View ArticleACTA, European Realpolitik, and Polish Society
Poland's massive protests against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement highlighted the economic and political exclusion of young people and increasing anger toward government restrictions on a free...
View ArticleInternet Heavyweights Get Behind Free Expression and Privacy Online
Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! have taken an important step by undergoing independent assessments of their commitments to the freedom of expression and privacy rights of their users.
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