Better understanding Open Access of scholarly research will help determine how it contributes to the greater circulation of knowledge and disseminating research in Latin America.
The United Nations (UN) Guidelines for Consumer Protection, passed in 1985, were intended as a set of standards for good practices in consumer protection, particularly for developing countries.
Releasing freely accessible, standardized, and easily readable government data can increase transparency and accountability. This open government data movement can foster greater civic participation and promote new business opportunities.
Transparency of legal procedures is one of the tenets of a well functioning democracy. Until the arrival of the Internet, legal professionals and the public could only obtain primary sources of law through packages sold by commercial publishers.
The Internet is often seen to be both an enabler and an equalizer, because it allows citizens a means to discuss their regions and businesses, to voice their concerns and to connect to the people they care about.
Honduras has one of the highest rates of food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean (just behind Haiti and Nicaragua).
Since its creation in 1999, the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) has played a primary role in supporting the judicial reform process undertaken by members of the Organization of American States (OAS).
The longstanding crisis of the developing world library is coming to an end, but not in the way most observers anticipated. Resource scarcity, limited holdings and poor infrastructure remain the norm.
Across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), democracies suffer from a variety of interrelated deficits, including bureaucratic inefficiency, poor service provision and limited citizen engagement.
Negotiations around intellectual property rights (IPR) are increasingly a key factor in international trade and an important item on the international development agenda.