INFORMATION SOCIETY POLICIES. ANNUAL WORLD REPORT 2009 Editor: Árpád Rab (
[email protected]) Файл загружен с http://www.ifap.ru INTRODUCTION Assistance to UNESCO Member States in the formulation of national information policy frameworks has been the main focus of the Information for All Programme’s activities in 2008-2009. On this basis, the following body of work has been achieved: · Preparation of a 150-page document National Information Society Policy: A Template designed to assist UNESCO Member States in the development, updating and refinement of appropriate, comprehensive, forward-looking and sustainable national e- strategies, including ICT strategies and sectoral e-strategies as appropriate , as an integral part of national development plans and poverty reduction strategies.. · Establishment of an online IFAP Information Society Observatory (http://ifap-is-observatory.ittk.hu/), continuously updated with new, relevant strategic documents, events, books and experiences, annotations and links, following the development of the field. The Observatory makes accessible up-to-date information grouped, in the first instance, around the IFAP priority areas: Information for development; Information accessibility; Information literacy; Information ethics and Information preservation. 2 · Publication of 5 Information Society Observatory Newsletters, updating users on new entries and additions to the Observatory; · Publication of the present Information Society Policies. Annual World Report. We begin this Report, perhaps untypically, with a list of major 2009 international and national policy and analytical documents in the Information Society field, so you can refer to them directly, instead of reading summaries here. This is followed by a review of salient Information/Knowledge Society policy issues, as they emerged in 2009.