EIFL in the news

Recent media coverage

Multi-targeted rural ICT project in Ho ends, Ghana News Association, Ghana Business News, 16 May 2013.

Libraries for Development in Africa, Various authors, The Soul Beat (online), 8 May 2013, Issue 220.

Stamping out poverty as well as books? How libraries can support developmen, by Stuart Hamilton, The Guardian (online), 12 March 2013

Nairobi en libre accès, by Matthew Labrooy, eLearning Africa: Newsportal, 8 March 2013

WTO: Wide Support For LDC TRIPS Extension, With A Hitch, by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch, 6 March 2013

Open Access Nairobi, by Matthew Labrooy, eLearning Africa: Newsportal, 6 March 2013

Aaron Swartz Was Right, by Peter Ludlow, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 February 2013

The Inside Story of Why Aaron Swartz Broke Into MIT and JSTOR - The Italian retreat that radicalized the Internet prodigy, by Noam Scheiber, New Republic, 13 February 2013

Open Access Week Preview, by Abby Clobridge, Information Today, Inc., 15 October 2012

Zimbabwe: Public Libraries Underutilised, by Jean Fairbairn, allAfrica.com, 13 September 2012

Public Libraries - an underused resource for development, by Jean Fairbairn, SciDev, 23 August, 2012 

US and EU blocking treaty to give blind people access to books, by Paige McClanahan, The Guardian, 30 July 2012

“Africa Intellectual Property Forum” nach heftiger Kritik abgesagt [cancelled after much criticism], by Philipp Otto, The iRights.info blog,  27 February 2012 

US, WIPO Training Programme On IP Rights In Africa Comes Under Fire, by William New, Intellectual Property Watch, 12 February 2012 

Public Libraries Lure More Users, The Observer, Uganda, 20 November 2011

Uganda: Public libraries lure more users, allAfrica.com, 20 November 2011

Libraries body in Shs38m programme, Daily Monitor, Uganda, 14 November 2011

New Research Shows Libraries in Africa are "Essential," Yet Underutilized Resources for Technology and Community Development Services, Sis Newslog,- International Telecommunication Union, 11 November 2011

New Research Shows Libraries in Africa are “Essential.” Yet Underutilized Resources for Technology and Community Development Services, indiatimes, 11 November 2011

Libraries Foster Development, New Vision, Uganda, 11 November 2011

Failure to Adopt Technology in Libraries Results in Fewer Users, Inter Press Service, 11 November 2011

Africa: Failure to Adopt Technology in Libraries Results in Fewer Users, allAfrica.com, 11 November 2011

Africa: Failure to Adopt Technology in Libraries Results in Fewer Users, Global Issues, 11 November 2011

Kenya: New Research Shows Libraries in Africa Are "Essential," Yet Underutilized, allAfrica.com, 9 November 2011

Only 33% of Kenyans visit libraries – report, The Star, Kenya, 9 November 2011

New Research Shows Libraries in Africa are “Essential” Yet Underutilized Resources for Technical and Community Development Services, MENAFN.com, 9 November2011

Kenyans shun libraries over archaic Technology, The Standard, Kenya, 8 November 2011

Library Survey Report, Classic 105 FM, Kenya, 8 November 2011 (not archived thus not available for listening)

Modern Technology Phases Out Use of Books, Classic 105 FM, Kenya, 8 November 2011 (not archived thus not available for listening)

Women and Children Are Not Using the Library, Classic 105 FM, Kenya, 8 November 2011 (not archived thus not available for listening)