The report was launched in a webinar held on October 7.
CAFA’s new report, Information and Communication Technologies, Freedom of Expression and their Impact on Academic Freedom, is now available for download. This report, authored by Anna Luisa Walter de Santana and Jorge Ernesto Roa Roa, analyzes the relationship between the right to academic freedom and the rights, interests, challenges and problems that arise in its exercise when it interacts with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
Santana is a professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUC Paraná), in Brazil, and Roa Roa is a professor of Constitutional Law at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. His text highlights the changes that the Internet has brought about in the way knowledge is produced, disseminated and appropriated. In a context of massive use of the Internet and digital platforms, university teaching, production and dissemination of scientific knowledge have undergone radical transformations. On the one hand, the expansion of possible connections in the digital space has allowed scientific knowledge to leave the walls of universities and reach a large number of people. On the other hand, academic freedom and other human rights have been profoundly affected, prompting a debate on how to protect rights in virtual environments.
The report makes a series of recommendations, highlighting the role of the States in adopting measures to make progress in guaranteeing universal and meaningful access to the Internet.
The webinar Information and communication technologies, freedom of expression and its impact on academic freedom took place on October 7 and included the participation of Anna Luisa Walter de Santana, Jorge Ernesto Roa Roa, the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Pedro Vaca Villarreal, the general coordinator of the Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education (CLADE), Nelsy Lizarazo, the researcher of the Center for Human Rights, Research and Education of the University of Ottawa Salvador Herencia Carrasco, who is also CAFA’s legal consultant, and Camilla Croso, CAFA’s executive director.
Watch the launch Webinar on our Youtube channel (click here).
Or if you prefer, read the Executive Summary: English | Português | Español