
Information accessibility is the first step of empowerment in a country like India, where 70% population lives in 638,365 villages, and most of them are located in the remotest regions of the country. Reportedly, rural and underdeveloped countries are not able to access information due to lack of basic information, infrastructure and means to access information. The DEF-APC project, “Internet Rights” in 2011 came at the right time to advocate ‘internet access for all’ at the national level. As its first step of the project, DEF & APC jointly submitted their first UPR (Universal Periodic Review) in 2011 focusing on internet rights, internet rights and making internet as an effective tool to access right to information in India…
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