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Plenary Debate 3: Access to and Preservation of Information

Plenary Debate 3: Access to and Preservation of Information. Introduction Dietrich Schüller Vice Chairperson IFAP Bureau Chair IFAP Working Group on Information Preservation. Plenary Debate 3: Access to and Preservation of Information. Access to information: a basic human right

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Plenary Debate 3: Access to and Preservation of Information

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  1. Plenary Debate 3: Access to and Preservation of Information Introduction Dietrich Schüller Vice Chairperson IFAP Bureau Chair IFAP Working Group on Information Preservation

  2. Plenary Debate 3: Access to and Preservation of Information Access to information: a basic human right Well organised transmission of acquired information and knowledge: basis of human condition, of existence and progress of civilisations Information – analogue as well as digital – is vulnerable, even volatile Consequently, ensuring access is the aim, organising preservation the indispensible prerequisite

  3. Plenary Debate 3: Access to and Preservation of Information Access to and Preservation of Information (API): equally important for Education, Science, and Culture Consequently organised in a separate sector: Communication and Information (CI)

  4. Challenges to UNESCO and member states • Adequate facilitating API , bridging technological gaps, • Facing the mere amount of information growth – 2013: 3 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 = 3x1021 = 3 ZB “Zettabytes” • Recognising and supporting linguistic and cultural diversity by digitisation of analogue information

  5. Plenary Debate 3: Access to and Preservation of Information Role of IFAP: To enhance UNESCO’s work, inter alia through Priority Areas’ Working Groups Close relation of IFAP Information Preservation WG with Memory of the World Subcommittee on Technology Monitoring of global situation Make recommendations to UNESCO

  6. Plenary Debate 3: Access to and Preservation of Information Major Information Preservation events: Moscow Conference Preservation of Digital Information in the Information Society, Oct.2011 Moscow Declaration www.unesco.ru/en/?module=news&action=view&id=215 Vancouver Conference The Memory of the World in Digital Age, Sept. 2012 www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/mow/unesco_ubc_vancouver_declaration_en.pdf

  7. Plenary Debate 3: Access to and Preservation of Information 1) Tatiana Murovana, „Access to information: Major trends. Russia's experience in providing access to socially important information” 2) Alfredo Ronchi: "The facebook generation walking on the tightrope over the black hole" 3) Christiane Baryla, "Information Preservation - 4000 Years of Traditions Challenged by Digital Age" 4) Jonas Palm: "Preservation Costs" 5) Dietrich Schüller: "Audiovisual Preservation" Summary

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