Over the first decade of the 21st Century, the Internet and its convergence with mobile communications has enabled … the world’s population – use the Internet. However, during the same period, defenders of digital rights have raised … growing concerns over how legal and regulatory trends might be constraining online freedom of expression. Anecdotal accounts …

Just as the steam engine was the driving force behind the Industrial Revolution, broadband Internet is today seen as … Internet is considered as a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, releasing the innovative potential … Africa region (MENA) now recognize that broadband Internet is crucial to their efforts to reduce poverty and create job …

telecommunications competition. Transportation deregulation successfully prompted competition where (as in the case of airlines and … possibilities for intermodal competition. Indeed, the glimmers of hope for local competition - cell phone substitution and voice-over-Internet … deregulatory agenda seeks a law capable of accommodating the speed and diversity of technological change in this "Internet time." …

-political stability to generate a socio-political stability index. Media freedom may promote socio-political stability by making the …

Freedom of expression and the press had since 1979 been introduced into the constitution of the Federal Republic of …) confers on everyone freedom of expression, which includes freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart ideas and … remained a mirage. It is against this backdrop that this paper examines the impact of the Freedom of Information Act, 2011 …

theoretically ambiguous. This paper therefore explores this association by estimating the effect of degrees of freedom of expression … association between freedom of expression and terrorism. We explore this association empirically in a large panel of 162 countries … observed between 1970 and 2016. Distinguishing between media freedom and discussion freedom, and separating democracies and …