Statement of Candidacy for IFLA President-elect To serve as President 2017-2019 As President-elect of IFLA, I will do my utmost to support our positions as spelled out in the Lyon Declaration, to pursue our expectations as articulated in the IFLA Trends Report, to work for… Read More
[PDF] Geneva, Switzerland 26-28 November 2014 We the undersigned organisations from civil society welcome the CSTD Secretariat’s draft report on the Ten-year Review of Progress Made in the Implementation of the Outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society. Read More
NETmundial outcomes: set of principles for Internet governance and a roadmap for their implementation The NETmundial meeting closed on April 24th with an outcome document adopted by acclaim by participants from 97 countries. The Multistakeholder Statement of Sao Paulo outlines a… Read More
IFLA is this week attending the NetMundial meeting in Sao Paolo, Brazil. NetMundial is being organized by the Brazilian Government and /1Net, a forum that gathers international entities of the various stakeholders involved with Internet governance. The meeting can be considered a response to the 2013 Snowden revelations… Read More
IFLA has become a signatory to the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance. Read More
In a fast changing information environment where new media and ICTs are spreading innovation in developing and developed countries alike, spurring new business models and unleashing new opportunities, libraries have to anticipate and adapt the change to preserve their central role in providing public access to information and knowledge. Read More