Democracy Day (Canada) Democracy Day (Canada) Democracy Day is a project initiated by Fair Vote Canada "to celebrate and reflect upon Canadian democracy." On August 2, 2011, Fair Vote Canada launched Democracy Day and Democracy Week in Canada annual events encouraging participation, education, and celebration of Canadian democracy. In its first year events were held by different groups in cities across Canada. Fair Vote Canada designated Democracy Day to be Canada's celebration of the United Nations International Day of Democracy and Democracy Week to be the seven-day calendar week in which Democracy Day falls (September 15 each year). A number of Canadian non-profit
First Monday (journal) Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), University of Maastricht. First Monday (journal) First Monday is a monthly peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering research on the Internet. The journal is sponsored and hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago. It is published on the first Monday of every month. In 2011, the journal had an acceptance rate of about 15%. The journal has no article processing charges and no advertisements. According to the chief editor, Edward Valauskas, the journal emerged before the open access model emerged: “We didn’t call it open access in 1995 but we