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- Start of WSIS+10 Review Meeting at UNESCO HQ in Paris, France
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Ten years ago the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) took place in Geneva, aiming to bridge the global digital divide separating rich from poor countries by...
News - 25 February 2013 (created)
Tagged: France, Information literacy, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)
- WSIS +10 Review meeting
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The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) +10 review Meeting is starting next week in Paris, France. The meeting will take place from the 25th to the 27th of February,...
News - 21 February 2013 (created)
Tagged: France, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)
- WSIS+10
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2013 marks the ten years land mark from the first phase of the WSIS Summit in Geneva. UNESCO, as one of the leading implementing UN Agencies along with ITU and UNDP, is organising the first...
Event - 14 February 2013 (created)
Tagged: Event, France, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)
- IGF Baku - Workshop 189 outcomes 'Open Government Data for citizens, by citizens, about citizens?'
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Open Institute Kenya, Open Rights Group, Affilias, the UK Taxpayers Alliance and IFLA addressed the issue of “Big Data” and how the increasing trend of governments around the world...
News - 29 November 2012 (created)
Tagged: Azerbaijan, Digital inclusion, IGF, Intellectual property, Internet Governance Forum, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)
- Internet Governance Forum
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IFLA participates in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) since 2008 with the aim of ensuring that libraries are visible and active in the debate on Internet governance. IGF 2012...
Informational Page - 12 November 2012 (created)
Tagged: IGF, Internet Governance Forum, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)
- IGF Baku - Workshop 146 outcomes 'Intellectual property rights and the freedom to share'
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IFLA’s final workshop at the IGF 2012 took place on the morning of Thursday 8th November in Baku. The IFLA Director of Policy and Advocacy participated in a panel on intellectual property...
News - 12 November 2012 (created)
Tagged: Azerbaijan, Digital inclusion, IGF, Intellectual property, Internet Governance Forum, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)
- IGF Baku - Workshop 168 outcomes 'Capacity building Initiatives'
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At an IGF workshop on Wednesday 7th November IFLA and other library representatives made the case for libraries as key actors to help vulnerable and marginalised people play a key role in...
News - 8 November 2012 (created)
Tagged: Azerbaijan, Digital inclusion, IGF, Intellectual property, Internet Governance Forum, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)
- IGF Baku - Workshop 130 outcomes 'Digital Inclusion and Public Access to the Internet'
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At IGF 2012 Baku, Workshop 130 IFLA, EIFL and ISOC’s workshop on public libraries and digital inclusion kicked off the first afternoon of the 2012 Internet...
News - 7 November 2012 (created)
Tagged: Azerbaijan, Digital inclusion, IGF, Intellectual property, Internet Governance Forum, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)
- IGF Baku - Intellectual property rights and the freedom to share: are the two compatible? (8th November, Workshop 146)
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This workshop will focus on the tensions between intellectual property rights and the freedom to share. It will interrogate such questions as: Is the classical conceptualization of copyright...
News - 7 November 2012 (created)
Tagged: Azerbaijan, Digital inclusion, IGF, Intellectual property, Internet Governance Forum, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)
- IGF Baku - Capacity building Initiatives for better economic and social inclusion of vulnerable people in the Information society (7th November, Workshop 168)
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The workshop is the continuation of the Vilnius (WS 109) and Nairobi (WS 126) discussions on the use of ICTs by vulnerable people. The propose of this workshop is to have...
News - 6 November 2012 (created)
Tagged: Azerbaijan, Digital inclusion, IGF, Intellectual property, Internet Governance Forum, WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)