MALAWI / PROMOTING FREE EXPRESSION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
This article is the third and last in a three-part series focusing on digital rights, access to the Internet, and Internet affordability in Malawi. This part specifically looks at the high price of Malawi's Internet.
This article is second in three-part series focusing on digital rights, access to the Internet, and Internet affordability in Malawi. This part specifically looks at access to the Internet in Malawi.
The first of a three-part series that focuses on digital rights and why it is important for Malawian society to get involved in the discussion.
MISA Malawi would like to commend President Arthur Peter Mutharika for signing into law the Access to Information Bill after being passed by parliament.
Rights such as freedom of expression and access to information belong to everyone, not just the media. It takes strong commitment to ensure they become reality.
Members of Parliament have rejected a proposed law that seeks to regulate online media.
Malawi is in the process of resuscitating a multi-stakeholder Internet Governance Forum to shape and inform national policy on development of the Internet and ICTs in the country.
MISA Malawi led its members on May 3, 2014 to commemorate the World Press Freedom Day in Lilongwe, followed by two other regional celebrations in Mzuzu and Blantyre. To learn more about the Press Freedom...
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