{"id":104,"date":"2009-10-15T08:26:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T08:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-10-15T08:26:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T08:26:27","slug":"broadband_acces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/2009\/broadband_acces\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband access becomes a legal right in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/10\/15\/finland.internet.rights\/index.html\">Finland recently became the first country in the world make access to highspeed Internet a legal right<\/a>. International institutions like the UN hafa promoted access to communications technology as a human right at least since UNESCO&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0004\/000400\/040066eb.pdf\">MacBride Report (Many Voices One World)<\/a> was published in 1980. Several countries have indeed defined access to communications technology as a human right, such as France and Estonia, but Finland is the first to legally mandate access and to go as far as requiring <em>broadband<\/em> access, as opposed to just any old technology. Hooray for Finland!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland recently became the first country in the world make access to highspeed Internet a legal right. International institutions like the UN hafa promoted access to communications technology as a human right at least since UNESCO&#8217;s MacBride Report (Many Voices &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/2009\/broadband_acces\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icts","category-information-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22Btc-1G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education4site.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}