Transcript Title :: Date Information Ethics as a Strategic Priority of UNESCO Information for All Programme (IFAP) Geneva, 11 May 2010 Evgeny Kuzmin Chairman UNESCO IFAP Intergovernmental Council.

Title
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Information Ethics
as a Strategic Priority of
UNESCO Information for All
Programme (IFAP)
Geneva, 11 May 2010
Evgeny Kuzmin
Chairman
UNESCO IFAP Intergovernmental Council
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UNESCO IFAP
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 IFAP – UNESCO’s response to the
challenges and opportunities of the
Information Society
 Information Ethics – one of the five
priorities of the IFAP Strategic Plan (2008–
2013)
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UNESCO’s mission
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Medium-Term Strategy
 focus on:
 peace building
 eradication of poverty
 sustainable development
 intercultural dialogue
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UNESCO’s functions
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UNESCO
 a laboratory of ideas
 a standard-setter
 a clearing house
 a capacity-builder in Member States
 a catalyst for international cooperation
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UNESCO IFAP
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IFAP efforts
 upstream policy advice
 related capacity-building
 advocacy
 benchmarking and cooperation
 skills and practices
 modality for capacity development
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UNESCO IFAP
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 IFAP – a flagship intergovernmental
initiative
 IFAP’s key merits:
 great scope
 interdisciplinary, intersectoral and integrative
approach
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IFAP Strategic Plan
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 Five priorities of the IFAP Strategic Plan for
2008–2013:
 Information Preservation
 Information Literacy
 Information Ethics
 Information for Development
 Information Accessibility
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IFAP Strategic Plan
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 unambiguous and realistic priorities allow
international and national agencies:
 adapt to the challenges of the new information
environment
 reduce the hard impact of these challenges
 increase their contribution to the development of
all our nations and the entire human civilization
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IFAP Strategic Plan
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IFAP’s response to topical problems
 relevant for:
 developed countries
 developing countries
 countries with transition economic and political
systems
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UNESCO IFAP
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 IFAP helps:
 see and understand the problems as one interlinked
whole
 arrive at balanced approaches to their solution
 gather manifold and multilevel elements of national
and international policies in a harmonious entity
 overcome presently available and ever new dangerous
errors
at least at the level of collective mentality
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UNESCO IFAP
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 Contribution to research and developments works
 International papers on information ethics
prepared and adopted for the WSIS:
 Recommendation concerning the Promotion and Use
of Multilingualism and Universal Access to
Cyberspace
 UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital
Heritage
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UNESCO and WSIS
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Publications on the information society:
 Securing a place for a language in cyberspace
 Measuring Linguistic Diversity on the Internet
 Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Information Society
 Memory of the Information Society
 Science in the Information Society
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UNESCO and WSIS
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Publications on the information society
 Education in and for the Information Society
 Gender Issues in the Information Society
 Measuring and Monitoring the Information and Knowledge
Societies: a Statistical Challenge
 Status of Research on the Information Society
 Twelve years of Measuring Linguistic Diversity in the
Internet: Balance and Perspectives
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UNESCO IFAP
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Papers on information society policies
 National Information Society Policy: A
Template
 Information for All Programme: Information
Society Policies. Annual World Report 2009
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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Publications on information ethics
 Ethics and Human Rights in the Information
Society
 Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies: a
Survey
 Politics in the Information Society: the Bordering
and Restraining of Global Data Flows
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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IFAP Working Groups
 Bureau Members responsible for the
functioning of the WGs:
 Information Preservation (Austria)
 Information for Development (Kuwait)
 Information Ethics (Latvia and
Venezuela)
 Information Literacy (Philippines)
 Information Accessibility (Madagascar)
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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Information ethics -
critical understanding of the normative
ethics in the information society, including:
information, data and knowledge
 creation
 preservation
 distribution
 providing access to
 facilitating usage
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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Contribution to organizing debates (2006–2008)
 Four regional meetings:
 Asia and the Pacific
 Europe
 Africa
 Latin America and the Caribbean
 Four final documents reflecting the position
and expectations of regions
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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Facilitation of the knowledge accumulation
 Online Information Society Observatory’s
section on infoethics
 Contribution to the Global Ethics Observatory:
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Who's Who in Ethics
Ethics Institutions
Ethics Teaching Programmes
Ethics Related Legislation and Guidelines
Codes of Conduct
Resources in Ethics
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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Facilitation of networking
 Participation in the establishment of
professional network cooperation:
 Universities Network on Info-Ethics
 Latin-American Youth Network on Info-Ethics
in order to integrate academic institutions
and youth associations in the awareness
raising activities
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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UNESCO’s standard-setting function
 IFAP helps defining norms for democratic,
pluralistic and sustainable knowledge
societies
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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Code of Ethics for the Information Society
 general framework for establishing norms of
good conduct in the information society
 2007 – the first draft
 2009 – the second draft
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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Code of Ethics for the Information Society
 based on relevant human rights
proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights:
 respect to privacy
 freedom of thought, conscience, religion or
belief
 the right to education
 the right freely to participate in the cultural life
of the community
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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Code of Ethics for the Information Society
 addressed primarily to the Member States’
governments
 includes recommendations for:
 international organizations
 business executives
 users
 all participants of the information society
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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Code of Ethics for the Information Society
Structure (1):
 Information: Ethical Requirements
 Rights and Freedoms. Equality
 Access to networks and services
 Access to creation and use of information and
content
 Capacity to use information hardware and
software
 Freedom of expression
 Privacy
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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Code of Ethics for the Information Society
Structure (2):
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Freedom of the creative use of technology
Democracy
Responsibilities
Security
Protection of the law
Intellectual property rights
Responsibilities of service providers
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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Code of Ethics for the Information Society
 available at: http://portal.unesco.org/
 discussed during the 6th session of the
Intergovernmental Council for the
Information for All Programme (March 31,
2010, Paris)
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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Code of Ethics for the Information Society
 different understanding of the essence of
human rights in various cultures and
communities
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IFAP and Information Ethics
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Cooperation with IFAP
 better understanding of all issues of
information ethics:
 at the level of the UN and its Member States
 among politicians, experts and public at large
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Thank you!
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http://www.unesco.org
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