Parliamentary Power to the People: Analyzing Online and Offline Strategies in Latin America
March 2012
This report asks how parliamentary monitoring organizations can leverage online and offline strategies to make legislative information of greater social and political utility.

Forensic Genetics: A Global Human Rights Challenge
Jeremy Gruber
March 22, 2012
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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 put at risk.

Ten Years On, Researchers Embrace Open Access
Melissa Hagemann
February 14, 2012
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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 Budapest Open Access Initiative.

Access 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.

Civil 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 communications needs of NGOs in innovative ways.

Open 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.