Information for All Programme (IFAP)

Information has an important role to play in addressing development issues, but this requires access to information as well as the availability of relevant and useful information. This Working Group has an important role to play in collecting case studies and supporting research on information development, promoting freedom of information and access to public information, as well as seeking to strengthen links between information and development policy.

Chair: Mr Shanmugam Letchumanan (Malaysia)

Other members:

• Mr Roni Aviram, Israel
• Mrs Anelia Dimova, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Ms LIU Ya, China
• Dr Aly Aly Mohamed Fahmy, Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo, Egypt
• Mr Motuma Temesgen Dessisa, Ethiopia
• Ms Haimanot Zleke Workineh, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Dr Moisés Ricardo Jerez Morales, Guatemala
• Miriam F. Ramirez Pinto De Galvez, Guatemala
• Mr Arpad Rab, Hungary
• Dr Omid Fatemi, Head of the Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IRANDOC), Iran
• Mr Imants Freibergs, IT consultant, pas president of the Latvian Information and communications Technology Association (LIKTA), Latvia
• Mrs Mabela khabele, Lecturer in Mass Communication at Distance, Education and Training (Deputy Chair of the Commitee), Lesotho
• Mr Renaldas Gudauskas, Martynas mazvydas national Library of Lithuania, Vilinus, Lithuania
• Mr Akhtar Jawad, Assistant Director, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Mr Wojciech Wozniak, Director, National Digital Archives, Warsaw, Poland
• Professor Ludovit Molnar, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
• Mr Mohammed Sheya µ, Tanzania
• Mrs Usanee Sritanyarat, Senior Specialist (International Public Relations), The Government Public Relations Department, Thailand
• Mr Vladimir Gritsenko, Director, International Reserach and Training Center, Ukraine
• Mrs Irene Plaz Power, Investigadora del Centro de Estudio de Transformaciones Sociales, Ciencia y Conocimientos, IVIC, Venezuela
• Dr. M. Sirajul Islam, Örebro University School of Business, Sweden

Information literacy provides the competencies, skills and attitudes that enable persons to seek, evaluate, use and create information, thereby empowering them to effectively participate in the knowledge societies. This Working Group has an important role in supporting capacity-building, the development of tools, resources and indicators for information literacy as well as promoting the incorporation of information literacy in education curricula and national information policies.

Chair: Ms Dorothy K. Gordon (Ghana)

Other members:

• Dr. Dimane Mpoeleng, Senior Lecturer, Computer Science and Information Systems, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), Palapye, Botswana
• Mrs Hristina Dobreva, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Dr (Julia) Xiaojuan Zhang, Beijing, China
• Dr Abou El Ela Oteify HASSANEIN, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
• Mr Motuma Temesgen Dessisa, Ethiopia
• Ms Haimanot Zleke Workineh, Addis ababa, Ethiopia
• Dr Moisés Ricardo Jerez Morales, Guatemala
• Ms Miriam F. Ramirez Pinto De Galvez, Guatemala
• Mr Tibor Koltay, Hungary
• Dr Omid Fatemi, Head of the Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IRANDOC), Iran
• Ms Signe Balina, Member of the Board of Computer Science center, Latvia
• Mrs Leomile Nthabane, Private Publisher, Publisher of mainly school books and accessibility (Member), Lesotho
• Mr Akhtar Jawad, Assistant Director, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Mr Wojciech Wozniak, Director, National Digital Archives, Warsaw, Poland
• Mr Sonny Coloma,The Philippines
• Professor Ludovit Molnar, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
• Professor Pavol Navrat, Bratislava, Slovakia
• Dr Simona Kralj Zatler, Directorate of Information Society, Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport, Slovenia
• Mrs Usanee Sritanyarat, Senior Specialist (International Public Relations), The Government Public Relations Department , Thailand
• Mr Vladimir Gritsenko, Director, International Reserach and Training Center, Ukraine
• Mrs Nancy Zambrano, Profesora de la Escuela de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias, UCV, Venezuela

The increasing rate of information production coupled with changes in technologies, formats as well as the fragility of new data storage media is putting at risk our future ability to access digital knowledge. This Working Group interacts closely with the Memory of the World Programme to build the capacity of information professionals to develop and implement digital preservation standards and techniques as well as to support the exchange of best practices. Other roles include working with professional communities and policy-makers to raise awareness of this threat.

Chair: Mr Laszlo Z. Karvalics (Hungary)

Members of the Memory of the World Sub-Committee on Technology (SCoT):

• Mr Jonas Palm (Chair of Sub-Committee), Arkivråd (Director, Head of Division), Riksarkivet (National Archives), Bevarandebyrån (Division of Preservation), P.O. Box 12541, SE-102 29 Stockholm, Sweden

  Jonas Palm is specialised in photography preservation and general issues of digital preservation
   

• Mr Michael Alexander (Raporteur), 31 Keble Park Crescent, Bishopsthorpe, York, United Kingdom

  Michael Alexander, formerly at the British Library, is a specialist of electronic document preservation
   

• Mr Kevin Bradley, Sound Preservation and Technical Services, National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

  Beyond sound preservation, Kevin Bradley is a specialised in design and structure of digital preservation for documents of all kinds
   

• Mr Fernando Osorio, Director of Conservation of the Imaging and Audiovisual Collections, Fundacion Televisa, AC, Avenida Vasco de Quiroga 2000, Colonia Santa Fe, Delegación  Alvaro Obregón, México DF 0210, Mexico

  Fernando Orsorio is specialised in photography and film preservation and an Associate of the Image Permance Institute, Rochester, a leading body in this field.
   

• Lai Tee PHANG, National Archives of Singapore, 1 Canning Rise, Singapore  179868, Singapore

  Lai Tee Phang is specialising in the preservation of traditions document materials

Representatives of NGOs:

• Mr Kurt Deggeller, Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA)

  CCAAA represents 7 NGOs in the field of audiovisual preservation. Kurt Deggeller is the founding director of the Fonoteca Nationale Svizzera, and Memoriav, the Swiss Working Party of Audiovisual Archives
   

• Mr David Leitch, Secretary-General, International Council on Archives, 60, rue des Francs-Bourgeois, 75003 Paris, France

  David Leitch is a specialist in archive administration and currently Secretary General of ICA
   

• Mr Reinhard Altenhoener, Deputy general director and head of central services, German National Library, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

Nominated by IFAP Council Member France (French National Commission for UNESCO):

• Mrs Christine Deschamps, France

  Christine Deschamps, a specialist in library automation, was inter alia IFLA President from 1997-2003

Other members:

• Mr Dietrich Schüller, Consultant, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Phonogrammarchiv, Liebiggasse 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria

  Founder and former chair of IASA Technical Committee , Dietrich Schüller was inter alia involved in the development of digital archiving for audiovisual records. He retired as director of the Phonogrammarchiv in  2008
   

• Mrs Zlatina Nikolova, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Mr Zhou Jie, Beijing, China
• Dr Cherif Mahdy ABDOU, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
• Mr Motuma Temesgen Dessisa, Ethiopia
• Ms Haimanot Zleke Workineh, Addis ababa, Ethiopia
• Dr Moisés Ricardo Jerez Morales, Guatemala
• Mrs Miriam F. Ramirez Pinto De Galvez, Guatemala
• Mr Andras Sipos, Hungary
• Dr Omid Fatemi, Head of the Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IRANDOC), Iran
• Mr Andris Vilks, Director of National Library of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
• Mr Tsebo Matsasa, Journalism, media and Civil Society, Information Ethics and Policities at National and Regional Levels (Member), Lesotho
• Mr Akhtar Jawad, Assistant Director, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Mr Wojciech Wozniak, Director, National Digital Archives, Warsaw, Poland
• Professor Androvic, Bratislava, Slovakia
• Mrs Usanee Sritanyarat, Senior Specialist (International Public Relations), The Government Public Relations Department, Thailand
• Mr Vladimir Gritsenko, Director, International Reserach and Training Center, Ukraine
• Mr Santos Himiob, Jefe, Centro de Documentación e Investigación en Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información, Biblioteca Nacional, Venezuela

Information Ethics covers the ethical, legal and societal aspects of the applications of ICT and derive from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Working Group seeks to better understand and raise awareness of the impacts of emerging technologies, contribute to enlarging the international debate on information ethics and support the development of guidelines in this field. By identifying emerging trends, the Working Group seeks to assists policy-makers in developing appropriate responses.

Chair: Vacant

Other members:

• Mrs Leyla Bartet, Peru
• Mrs Zlatina Nikolova, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Ms Fang Wang Tianjin, China
• Mr Motuma Temesgen Dessisa, Ethiopia
• Ms Haimanot Zleke Workineh, Addis ababa, Ethiopia
• Dr Moisés Ricardo Jerez Morales, Guatemala
• Mrs Miriam F. Ramirez Pinto De Galvez, Guatemala
• Mr Laszlo Ropolyi, Hungary
• Dr Omid Fatemi, Head of the Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IRANDOC), Iran
• Mr Andrejs Vasiljevs, Latvia
• Dr Percy Mangoaela, Managerial Level of ICT's and Information Accessibility (Member), Lesotho
• Mr Akhtar Jawad, Assistant Director, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Mr Wojciech Wozniak, Director, National Digital Archives, Warsaw, Poland
• Professor Ludovit Molnar, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
• Professor Pavol Navrat, Bratislava, Slovakia
• Mrs Usanee Sritanyarat, Senior Specialist (International Public Relations), The Government Public Relations Department, Thailand
• Mr Vladimir Gritsenko, Director,International Reserach and Training Center, Ukraine
• Mrs Ximena González Broquen, Jefa, Centro de Estudio de Transformaciones Sociales, Ciencia y Conocimientos, IVIC, Venezuela

This Working Group addresses a range of issues linked to ensuring the availability, accessibility and affordability of information, as well as addressing the specific needs of people with disabilities so as to facilitate their participation in the knowledge societies. The Working Group’s interventions include contributing to policy resources and guidelines, working with various stakeholders to support and promote open standards, conducting capacity building and raising awareness amongst key stakeholders.

Chair: H. E. Mr. Jose Manuel Rodriguez Cuadros, Ambassador, Permanent Delegate, Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Peru to UNESCO (Peru)

Other members:

• Mr Basuki Yusuf Iskandar, Indonesia
• Mrs Hristina Dobreva, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Mr Motuma Temesgen Dessisa, Ethiopia
• Ms Haimanot Zleke Workineh, Addis ababa, Ethiopia
• Dr Moisés Ricardo Jerez Morales, Guatemala
• Mrs Miriam F. Ramirez Pinto De Galvez, Guatemala
• Ms Katalin Fehér, Hungary
• Dr Omid Fatemi, Head of the Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IRANDOC), Iran
• Assoc Prof. Mr Moshoeshoe-Chadzingwa, Academix Librarian and Lecturer in Information Literacy, Information for Development in General and Preservation Techniques -Print and Digitization (Chair), Lesotho
• Mr Omar Al Shanfari, Oman
• Mr Akhtar Jawad, Assistant Director, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Mr Wojciech Wozniak, Director, National Digital Archives, Warsaw, Poland
• Professor Pavol Horvath, University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
• Dr Simona Kralj Zatler, Directorate of Information Society, Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport, Slovenia
• Mrs Usanee Sritanyarat, Senior Specialist (International Public Relations), The Government Public Relations Department, Thailand
• Mr Vladimir Gritsenko, Director, International Reserach and Training Center, Ukraine

Languages are unique tools that enable people to comprehend and describe the world, communicate and transmit knowledge; they are repositories of historical and social experience of nations, and act as socialization factors and means of human self-identification. However, almost half of the world’s languages are facing the risk of extinction, while still more languages are facing the risk of losing their role in many fields, i.e. education, science, culture, mass media, politics, record keeping, business and tourism.

Multilingualism in cyberspace is one of the pillars of pluralistic equitable inclusive knowledge societies and sustainable development. However, most of languages are not present in cyberspace and it widens linguistic and digital divides. Citizens without access to cyberspace and its resources are being increasingly marginalized as they have limited access to information and knowledge.
IFAP encourages UNESCO Member States to consider language as a factor when formulating and implementing digital innovation policies and solutions to build fair knowledge societies and use appropriate tools to develop linguistic diversity and multilingualism in cyberspace.

IFAP also advocates through policy recommendations preservation of all world languages and the entry of new languages into the digital world, the creation and dissemination of multilingual content in cyberspace including in local languages. The Recommendation concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace is an important normative instrument that recognizes that linguistic diversity in technology and universal access to information in cyberspace are at the core of contemporary debates and can be a determining factor in the development of a knowledge-based society.

Chair: Mr. KUZMIN Evgeny, Vice-Chair, IFAP Intergovernmental Council; Chair, Russian IFAP Committee; President, Interregional Library Cooperation Centre (Moscow, Russian Federation)

Other members:

• AREFYEV Alexander, Deputy Director for Research, Centre for Sociological Research, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russian Federation)
• BAKEYKIN Sergey, Executive Director, Interregional Library Cooperation Centre & Vice-Chair, Russian IFAP Committee (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)
• CLIMENT-FERRANDO Vicente, Research Advisor, Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain)
• DIKI-KIDIRI Marcel, Retired Professor, Consultant, MAAYA (Poitiers/Bangui, Central African Republic)
• ELGUINDY Mohamed, Cybersecurity Expert, British University in Egypt; TV Presenter, Al Kahera Wal Nas TV Channel (Cairo, Egypt)
• FINQUELIEVICH Susana, Principal Researcher, National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET); Professor, University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• JANDHYALA Prabhakar Rao, Professor, University of Hyderabad (Hyderabad, India)
• KANNIGANTI Anuradha, Lecturer, French National Institute of Oriental Languages (Paris/Hyderabad, India)
• MÜLLER DE OLIVEIRA Gilvan, Associate Professor, Federal University of Santa Catarina; Acting Executive Secretary of MAAYA – World Network for Linguistic Diversity; General Coordinator, UNESCO Chair Language Policies for Multilingualism (Florianópolis, Brazil)
• MUROVANA Tatiana, Programme Specialist, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO, Moscow, Russian Federation)
• PARSHAKOVA Anastasia, Assistant Director, Interregional Library Cooperation Centre & Project Coordinator, Russian IFAP Committee (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)
• PIMIENTA Daniel, Independent Consultant (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
• POUZIN Louis, СEO, Open-Root (Paris, France)
• PRADO Daniel, Consultant; Member of Executive Committee, MAAYA (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• RONCHI Alfredo, Professor, Politecnico di Milano; Secretary-General, MEDICI Framework (Milan, Italy)
• RUIZ VASQUEZ Nestor, Lecturer and Researcher, Instituto Caro y Cuervo (Bogotá D.C, Columbia)
• SAMASSEKOU Adama, MAAYA President (Bamako, Mali)
• TUAZON Ramon, President, Asian Institute of Journalism & Communication (Quezon City, Philippines)