[liberationtech] IFLA's proposal for the European Internet Governance Forum (EuroDIG)

[Yosem Companys]

From: Stuart Hamilton <Stuart.Hamilton at ifla.org>

http://www.eurodig.org/subject-proposals

There you can see a number of proposals for the theme of this year’s
European Internet Governance Forum (also known as the EuroDIG). IFLA
has submitted the following proposal for a main theme:

The Internet and Development: Access, Inclusion and Empowerment

Submitted by International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA)

Within an IG context IFLA has consistently advocated for public access
to ICTs as a key enabling element for access to information and
therefore for development. We propose that this issue be explored in
its broadest context at EuroDIG, against the backdrop of the post-2015
development framework that UN Member States will create following the
reviews of the MDGs and WSIS. EuroDIG should assess how IG can
contribute to the framework particularly as ALL Member States (not
just developing countries) will be developing policies to implement
the post-2015 framework in the coming years.

This year the EuroDIG is opening up the themes for voting – if this is
a theme that you wish to see explored (and I hope that it is!) then
perhaps you could just click here:
http://www.eurodig.org/proposals/6687-the-internet-and and vote.

If you could share this message with other colleagues as well, and ask
them to vote – well that would be grand!

Kind regards,

Stuart

Stuart Hamilton
Director of Policy and Advocacy
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
P.O. Box 95312
2509 CH The Hague
Netherlands

00 31 70 314 0884

Twitter: @ifladpa