Following is an extract from the Institute for Public Policy Research’s (IPPR) commentary of the Whistleblower Protection Bill An important indication of the commitment to whistleblower protection from Namibia’s politicians will come in the next few days as the Bill...
We take up the message of ‘rededication’ and renew our efforts to ensure betterment where we can influence towards achieving it President Hage Geingob has anointed 2017 as ‘The Year of Rededication’, to the ideal of the ‘Namibian House’ in which no-one is supposedly...
(The following extract is taken from the latest report of the Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG)) The world is embracing a truly digital future. Upwards of one billion new users and 20 billion devices are forecast to be online within five years. However,...
President Geingob recently made a spectacle out of scornfully singling out The Namibian newspaper, labelling it amongst his “enemies”, and threatened to hold the draft Access to Information (ATI) law hostage over critical coverage of his administration. The episode...
On the whole, while there are some positives to point to, the trend discernible on the ATI And FoX landscape is rather worrying As we head towards the end of 2016 it remains clear that access to information (ATI) and freedom of expression (FoX) retain their positions...
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