<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Julia Brungs" <<a href="mailto:Julia.Brungs@ifla.org">Julia.Brungs@ifla.org</a>><br>Date: Dec 17, 2014 9:59 AM<br>Subject: [LyonDCL] The "Road to Dignity by 2030" includes access to information and an open Internet<br>To: "<a href="mailto:lyondcl@infoserv.inist.fr">lyondcl@infoserv.inist.fr</a>" <<a href="mailto:lyondcl@infoserv.inist.fr">lyondcl@infoserv.inist.fr</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear all,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">IFLA's response to the Synthesis Report of the UN Secretary-General on the Post-2015 Development Agenda: "The Road to Dignity by 2030: Ending Poverty, Transforming All Lives and Protecting the Planet"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Access to information...Intellectual Property reform...access to open data...affordable access to ICTs.</i> These are some of the important issues IFLA and those of us in the greater library and information community are grappling with
in a variety of ways.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">IFLA has been working with the international library community—as well as civil society and member states—to develop its position on the creation of the new <a href="http://www.ifla.org/node/8139" target="_blank">UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)</a> and
help ensure that crucial elements such as access to information are included in the <a href="http://www.ifla.org/node/8873" target="_blank">UN post-2015 Development Agenda</a>. Throughout this process, it is important that libraries are seen as being part of the conversation.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Last week, an advance "<a href="http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/5527SR_advance%20unedited_final.pdf" target="_blank">Synthesis Report of the UN Secretary-General On the Post-2015 Agenda</a>" was released. The Report outlines
the priorities and main goals of the post-2015 UN Development Agenda and has a serious goal: to transform our economies, our environment, and our societies. IFLA welcomes the Report and the inclusion of access to information, and encourages the United Nations
to recognise the role of access and skills as an essential pillar in the transformational agenda for sustainable development. Unfortunately, we are disappointed that the report lacks substance on the potential of ICTs for development.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We encourage the UN and its Member States to use the </span><a href="http://www.lyondeclaration.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">Lyon Declaration</span></a>
<span lang="EN-GB">during the next stage of intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda to inform the inclusion of access to information, and the skills to use it effectively by:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>Acknowledging the public's right to access information and data, while respecting the right to individual privacy;<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB">Recognising the important role of local authorities, information intermediaries and infrastructure such as ICTs and an open Internet as a means of implementation;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>Adopting policy, standards and legislation to ensure the continued funding, integrity, preservation and provision of information by governments, and access by people;<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>Developing targets and indicators that enable measurement of the impact of access to information and data.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">IFLA has already released a </span><a href="http://www.ifla.org/libraries-development/toolkit" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">Toolkit</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> to support library institutions and associations and other civil
society organisations to advocate for access to information in the context of post-2015 UN Development Agenda—thereby empowering signatories of the Lyon Declaration to make the voice of the library community heard on a national level.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>What next?<u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Following the publication of the final synthesis report at the end of December 2014, IFLA will produce a revised version of the Toolkit with specific talking points and examples to support meetings with member state representatives that
library associations and institutions will organise in early 2015.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The final synthesis report will become the baseline for the negations and meetings that will take place throughout 2015, in the lead up to the Special Summit on Sustainable Development. IFLA will be participating in some of the meetings,
including:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>High-level thematic debate on the means of implementation for the post-2015 development agenda (February 2015)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 (July 2015)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>Millennium Development Goals Gap Task Force Report (September 2015)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>Special Summit on Sustainable Development (September 2015)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Read the full response <a href="http://www.ifla.org/node/9254" target="_blank">
online</a>. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Julia Brungs<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Policy and Projects Officer<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">P.O. Box 95312<br>
2509 CH The Hague<br>
Netherlands<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Phone: 0031703140884<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Email: </span>
<span><a href="mailto:Julia.brungs@ifla.org" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">Julia.brungs@ifla.org</span></a>
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