[Pal-dc] PAL-DC at the IGF 2015 (Christina de Castell)
Norbert Komlan GLAKPE
norbertglakpe at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 12:38:44 BST 2015
Good point Baudouin.
It is an evidence that in many developing countries, the libraries
encounter many financial difficulties to renew book stocks or acquire the
new publications.
With the adoption of LMD system in many developing countries, scholar
libraries are simply incapable to service the demand of scientific
publications for students, lecturers and researchers.
The strikes of students these last years in Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo and
many other developing countries have clearly outlined the evidence of this
issues.
The Open Educational Ressources accessible online can be a complementary
solution to the lack of Educational books in particular and Open Access
resources as well as the free online books can be considered more generally
as a good solution which address the lack of books within rural
communities, the excluded, the disabled especially in the developing word.
To make this possible, Internet access in needed for all. This is one of
the reasons why you should make a reference in the statement being drafted.
We need to tell people that books are available online. We need to teach
them where to get those books and how to harness these resources. This is
part of the job being carried out by INASP, IEFL, OpenAccess mouvement and
we need to get involved to give a help.
Norbert Komlan GLAKPE
2015-07-30 10:14 GMT+00:00 Baudouin Schombe <baudouin.schombe at gmail.com>:
> this is what I think and if this can be useful especially to future
> generations in Africa.
>
> 2015-07-30 11:08 GMT+01:00 Christina de Castell <
> Christina.de.Castell at ifla.org>:
>
>> Hi Badouin,
>>
>>
>>
>> It sounds like you’re suggesting that organizations promoting World Book
>> Day should include Internet activities. Is that what you mean?
>>
>>
>>
>> Are you proposing that we make reference to this in the statement we’re
>> drafting on public access in libraries?
>>
>>
>>
>> Christina
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* pal-dc-bounces at lists.apc.org [mailto:pal-dc-bounces at lists.apc.org]
>> *On Behalf Of *Baudouin Schombe
>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 30, 2015 11:53 AM
>>
>> *To:* PubAccessLibraries-DC
>> *Subject:* Re: [Pal-dc] PAL-DC at the IGF 2015 (Christina de Castell)
>>
>>
>>
>> The World Book Day and Copyright, April 23 of each year, is an
>> opportunity to recognize the power of books to improve our lives and
>> support, as well as those who produce them.
>>
>> As global symbols of social progress, books - reading and learning - have
>> become targets for those who denigrate culture and education, and who
>> reject dialogue and tolerance. Recently, we have witnessed attacks against
>> children in school as well as book burnings. In this context, we must
>> redouble our efforts to promote the book, the pen, the computer, and all
>> forms of reading and writing, to fight against illiteracy and poverty,
>> build sustainable societies and strengthen the foundations of peace.
>>
>> UNESCO plays a leading role in the fight against illiteracy, which will
>> be a crucial element of sustainable development goals for the post-2015.
>> Literacy is the key to knowledge. It is essential to self-esteem and
>> empowerment.
>>
>> *The books, in all forms, play a key role here. With 175 million
>> adolescents in the world - the majority of them girls and young women - are
>> unable to read and write one sentence, with UNESCO, we must strive to
>> mobilize information technology and communication, particularly mobile
>> technologies to promote literacy and provide quality education excluded.*
>>
>> Books are invaluable platform for freedom of expression and the free flow
>> of information, which are essential components of all societies today. The
>> future of the book as a cultural object is inseparable from the role of
>> culture in promoting sustainable and inclusive development paths. With
>> UNESCO aim to promote reading among young people and marginalized groups.
>>
>> Other actors are identifed as the International Publishers Association,
>> the International Booksellers Federation and the International Federation
>> of Library Associations and libraries to encourage careers in publishing,
>> bookshops, libraries and schools .
>>
>> The objectives of this day is to promote the pleasure of reading,
>> especially among young audiences, demonstrate the book's ability to
>> contribute to social progress and to defend the rights of authors.
>>
>> World Day Of book and Rights of Authors UNESCO states "any initiative to
>> promote the radiance of the book is a factor of cultural enrichment for all
>> those who have access and are, moreover, can only raise even more the
>> opinions treasure of world cultural heritage and to encourage
>> understanding, tolerance and dialogue. "
>>
>> SPECIFICALLY AS ACTIVITIES DURING THIS DAY
>>
>> Content production
>> -Training or initiation of youth for using blog
>> -using social networks for information exchanging on books
>>
>> Supports
>> -tablette
>> -smartphone
>>
>> strategies
>> -trade comments, poetry ...
>> -audiovisual production of some novels
>> -comic
>> -cartoons
>> -creation of data bases bookstores worldwide
>>
>>
>>
>> 2015-07-29 16:06 GMT+01:00 Christina de Castell <
>> Christina.de.Castell at ifla.org>:
>>
>> Hi Baudouin,
>>
>>
>>
>> Can you explain your suggestion in more detail? I don’t understand.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Christina
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* pal-dc-bounces at lists.apc.org [mailto:pal-dc-bounces at lists.apc.org]
>> *On Behalf Of *Baudouin Schombe
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 28, 2015 3:27 PM
>> *To:* PubAccessLibraries-DC
>> *Subject:* Re: [Pal-dc] PAL-DC at the IGF 2015 (Christina de Castell)
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I propose that the celebration of the day the books he is introduced the
>> importance of the internet in the acquisition of knowledge.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2015-07-21 5:30 GMT+01:00 Martha Giraldo <migiraldo at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Dear Christina,
>>
>> Hi, sorry for the delay, I would like to make a contribution for the
>> question:
>>
>> 3.What actions would make things better for users accessing the internet
>> through libraries?
>>
>> It´s indeed a great opportunity for IFLA to participate at the next
>> internet
>> governance forum (IGF2015) and try to bring more the attention of the
>> importance of widening Access to Information conversations, considering
>> that
>> the Internet is a major player for it.
>>
>> Bring people to know that Access to Information is more than an
>> infrastructure problem. There´s much more to work, agree, recommend to
>> national policy makers about getting advantage of the infrastructure,
>> which
>> means, making available pertinent information, contents, information
>> services that may help communities to drive their own development.
>>
>> We need more countries aware of the importance of the information their
>> institutions produce and more articulating actions that make it easy for
>> people to access it without -not finding it by google- or trying to see in
>> which web page the information might be found.
>>
>> What IFLA and Beyond Access have already achieved in terms of Access to
>> Information with the Lyon Declaration and the participation at the SDG´s
>> process is a major success!. The information laws that are being issued in
>> many countries are also remarkable issues.
>>
>> I would say we need to go deeper in terms of:
>> • Promoting the establishment of national policies/strategies to
>> make
>> available and easier for people to have real access to the information
>> they
>> need.
>> • Promoting local content development.
>> • Promoting libraries as ideal places for enabling the communities
>> to
>> facilitate information access and local content development.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Martha Giraldo
>> ICT4D specialist
>> Colombia
>>
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>> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:01:38 +0000
>> From: Christina de Castell <Christina.de.Castell at ifla.org>
>> To: PubAccessLibraries-DC <pal-dc at lists.apc.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Pal-dc] PAL-DC at the IGF 2015
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>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> As Stuart Hamilton mentioned in his message below of July 1, I?ve joined
>> IFLA as the manager of policy and advocacy and will be the main point of
>> contact for producing a document to discuss at IGF in Brazil. We have a
>> place on the agenda for the main session, and we need to post a document
>> for
>> discussion to the IGF website by August 1 to maintain our agenda slot.
>> This
>> gives us just over two weeks to gather ideas.
>>
>> Stuart proposed that we produce a set of guidelines or principles to
>> communicate the continuing value of public access to ICT via libraries and
>> asked three questions:
>>
>> 1. What format should this take?
>>
>> 2. Do you know of existing materials that contain valuable content
>> we
>> can draw from?
>>
>> 3. What actions would make things better for users accessing the
>> internet through libraries?
>>
>> I welcome your ideas, input and questions ? this can be as brief as
>> directing me to a link for a good document that contains principles, or as
>> much as you would like to contribute to outline your ideas. You?re welcome
>> to post to the list or to contact me directly off-list.
>>
>> I?ll post a draft to the list by July 28 (2 weeks from today) to seek your
>> additional feedback.
>>
>> I look forward to hearing from all of you.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Christina
>>
>> Christina de Castell
>> Manager, Policy & Advocacy
>> International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
>> Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
>> 2595 BE The Hague, Netherlands
>>
>> christina.de.castell at ifla.org<mailto:christina.de.castell at ifla.org>
>> +31-70-3140884
>>
>> From: Stuart Hamilton
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 12:06 PM
>> To: PubAccessLibraries-DC
>> Cc: Christina de Castell
>> Subject: PAL-DC at the IGF 2015
>>
>> Dear members of the PAL-DC mailing list
>>
>> At this year?s main IGF in Brazil there will be an opportunity for the
>> Dynamic Coalitions to showcase their work in the form of a main session.
>> Priority will be given to Dynamic Coalitions who have inter-sessional work
>> to present for feedback. IFLA and EIFL are of the opinion that this is a
>> good time for us to work together as a community on something concrete
>> around public access, perhaps a set of guidelines or principles that can
>> be
>> shared with the rest of the IGF community to make them more aware of the
>> continuing value of public access to ICTs.
>>
>> We all know that we have a lot of material around public access already.
>> So
>> perhaps this exercise is more about identifying an appropriate format for
>> our product (other coalitions have done guidelines, or principles),
>> pulling
>> together existing materials, and then drafting something off the back of
>> this exercise. IFLA and EIFL are willing to get this exercise underway,
>> and
>> then to share out with the whole PAL-DC community for input.
>>
>> As a parallel track, but also a contribution exercise, we would be
>> interesting to know what you think are the unresolved issues in public
>> access i.e. what concrete actions would you like to see taken by actors in
>> the public access space to make things better for users accessing the
>> internet through libraries? We can build your responses into the draft of
>> the product, and then share back with the mailing list for further input.
>> The document could then be taken in a more advanced draft for to the IGF
>> in
>> Brazil for discussion in the Pal-DC session, and showcased in the main
>> session for all DCs.
>>
>> What do you think? Could you find some time by the end of July to share
>> your
>> thoughts with the list? My colleague, Christina de Castell, who is the new
>> Manager of Policy and Advocacy at IFLA, will be the main point of contact
>> for this exercise, and will be responding to questions and keeping things
>> moving.
>>
>> Looking forward to hearing from you all. As a separate question, please
>> could you also indicate in your responses if you are planning to attend
>> the
>> IGF in Brazil in November?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> Stuart Hamilton
>> IFLA Deputy Secretary General
>> IFLA Headquarters
>> The Hague
>> Netherlands
>>
>> 00 31 70 314 0884
>> stuart.hamilton at ifla.org<mailto:stuart.hamilton at ifla.org>
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