#DecidimFest20: Alexandra Elbakyan
Channel: Decidim
Date: 13/11/2020

This is Alexandra Elbakyan's talk for #DecidimFest20. The debate will be on Thursday November 19th from 12h to 12:30 CET. To participate at the debate you must follow the link and leave your questions at the part of the comments section
https://meta.decidim.org/conferences/decidimfest2020/f/1390/meetings/1448

Democracy is strongly intertwined to the idea of information freedom and information access rights. Today however most people who live in democratic countries are denied their right to access information in science. Academic journals have a price tag high enough to effectively prohibit their free circulation in society, or in other words, put them under censorship. A unique technology from Kazakhstan, developed in 2011, has put academic censorship to an end by opening free access to tens of millions academic journals. That is a website Sci-Hub that has 500,000 unique readers every day. Most people all over the world support Sci-Hub, but the website is outlaw in every country. How and why that happened?