From 26 to 30 June, mayors, UN agencies, local officials, NGOs and experts met at the 11th World Urban Forum, to discuss how to transform cities and so deliver sustainable development. IFLA was present in order to underline the place of libraries and information in making this happen. Read More
An IFLA-led session at RightsCon explored tips and ideas for community-centric, bottom-up digital rights capacity-building. Read More
The European Cultural Foundation has just launched an open call for the Europe Challenge 2022, after finishing the pilot edition with a small group of libraries, who went through a year-long programme and helped to co-design the scheme, along with the partners Demsoc, Public Libraries 2030 and OBA (Amsterdam Public libraries). We interviewed the Europe Challenge team, Nicola Mullenger and Olga Alexeeva. If you're interested to know more about how you can join and be part of a Europe-wide citizen-led change, working with your communities, read on: Deadline to apply 27 May 2022. Read More
On 28 April, IFLA led a virtual session at the 2022 WSIS Forum, exploring innovative approaches to shared and public access for digital inclusion. Drawing on the experiences of public and community libraries, the workshop highlighted good practices and ways to maximise the impacts and reach of these services. Read More
An IFLA-led session at the 2022 World Summit on the Information Society Forum explores the ways libraries continue to innovate their digital inclusion initiatives – leveraging public access to support meaningful connectivity for their communities. Read More
As part of the 2022 MozFest, IFLA hosted an interactive workshop examining what recent library experiences with media literacy learning can tell us about effective ways to tackle misinformation. Read More
As part of the "Misinformation & Disinformation" space, IFLA is hosting a session about media literacy on 9 March, exploring how it can be leveraged as an effective tool to empower users. The session will feature an interactive discussion with invited guest experts. Read More
Addressing persistent digital divides remains a key priority in internet governance policy dialogues and initiatives. Libraries bring valuable solutions, practices and lessons learned to this discussion – and the Dynamic Coalition on Public Access in Libraries (DC-PAL) continues to facilitate this learning and exchange within the Internet Governance Forum platforms. Read More
2021 was a busy year on the internet governance and digital policy scene – reflecting and aiming to catch up with fast-evolving practices and changes in the broader digital ecosystem. From digital skills support to e-learning, online safety awareness and facilitating access to e-government services, libraries continued to advocate and… Read More
Under the motto "Library Accessible to All - a Library for All" the Fran Galovic Koprivnica Public Library strives for equal inclusion of a socially marginalized people. Read More