The Russian President’s
visit to our headquarters
gave UNESCO-Russia
partnership an
unheard-of impetus. <...> The Information for All Pro
gramme provides a framework for
international co-operation and inter
national and regional partnerships. <...> It supports the development of com
mon strategies, methods and tools for
building a just and free information
society and for narrowing the gap
between the information rich and the
information poor. <...> We fully share the
UNESCO stance on the
promotion and development
of the civilization dialogue. <...> Today, Russia possesses
all resources it needs for a
more dynamic participation
as ambitious projects are
implemented under the aegis
of UNESCO, the Council
of Europe and other interna
tional organizations. <...> Vladimir Putin,
President of Russia
The Information for All Programme
is a key element in the fulfillment of
UNESCO’s mandate to contribute
to “education for all”, to the “free ex
change of ideas and knowledge” and to
“increase the means of communication
between peoples”.
ernmental Informatics Programme. <...> The very name of the new programme,
Information for All, is indicative of a
global evolution – a problem previ
ously assessed as predominantly tech
nological has come to be viewed as
humanitarian-even humanist. <...> Man not
The programme emerged in technology-not even information itself2000 with a merger of two essential ought to dominate new global informa
UNESCO programmes of the two tion policies.
previous decades: the General Infor
Progress of human-oriented infor
mation Programme, and the Intergovmation policies, aimed to develop the
human potential, knowledge and hab
its, is the Programme core because it
depends on man which way the entire
human race and every particular country
and nation takes. <...> The Programme has a twofold mes
sage-promotion of an active discussion
on political, ethical and societal prob
lems of the emergent global informa
tion society, and implementing practi
cal programmes with the opportunities
of information and communication
technologies to form that society, Mr.
Koichiro Matsuura, UNESCO Di
rector-General, said in an address to
the 5th international conference, The
Law and Internet, which Moscow was
hosting, November 25-26, 2003.
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IFAP National Committee of Russia
The Russian Committee of the
UNESCO Information for All Pro
gramme was established, 2001, on rec
ommendations of the Intergovernmental
Council for IFAP and resolution of the
Russian Commission for UNESCO. <...> Represented on the Committee are gov
ernment bodies, educational, research <...>
UNESCO_Information_for_All_Programme_in_Russia.pdf
Table of Contents
An intergovernmental Programme of UNESCO ................................................... 2
IFAP National Committee of Russia ..................................................................... 3
The Russian model of universal accessto information of public domain .....................5
Personal information culture promotion by libraries and educational institutions ........7
Observatory of the Information Society: Russian Segment ...................................... 9
Digital library project, Meeting of Frontiers: Russia-Kazakhstan ............................. 10
Project AntiSpam ................................................................................................ 11
Project Digital Helikon ......................................................................................... 12
Information and Publishing ................................................................................... 13
Participation in international and national events ..................................................... 15
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