mBillionth award 2014 press release
The internet and other communication tools and technologies have created unprecedented opportunities to access and share information, opened up paths for pro-democracy groups, activists, journalists and individuals around the world to organize and make their government accountable and transparent.
Internet has emerged as the most empowering tool of the 21st century. However, the new technologicaltools can also be subject to discords and confrontations with the government of the day. Thereare already reports of governments aiming to crub internet freedom. Since 1995, governments around the world are making efforts to balance a need to deal with serious issues such as security,internet freedom, internet accessibility, but in repressive societies, these concerns often serve as convenient pretext to engage in censorship or surveillance of the internet that is stated to violate the rights and privacy of users and threatens the free flow of information and access to internet.
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