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UNESCO WSIS Action Directory
How UNESCO is implementing the WSIS Action Plan |
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Home: Enabling Environment
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The "UNESCO Position Statement on Internet Governance" was prepared in February 2004 as a contribution to the international discussions on Internet Governance. The Statement stresses that Internet governance mechanisms should be based on the principle of ?openness?, encompassing interoperability, freedom of expression and measures to resist any attempt to censor content.
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The "UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage" that was adopted by UNESCO's General Conference at its 32nd session (30 September ? 17 October 2003), provides a policy framework to take up the challnge that more and more of the world's cultural and educational resources are being produced, distributed and accessed in digital form rather than on paper. Born-digital heritage available on-line, including electronic journals, World Wide Web pages or on-line databases, is now part of the world?s cultural heritage. However, digital information is subject to technical obsolescence and physical decay.
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The UNESCO "Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Governmental Public Domain Information" have been prepared following an extensive review by concerned coordinating bodies in Member States and by a panel of experts.
This publication was prepared in response to 29 C/Resolution 28 of the UNESCO General Conference and closely corresponds to measures foreseen in UNESCO's "Recommendation concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace" and the Plan of Action of the World Summit on the Information Society.
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The timely, free and unrestricted international exchange of oceanographic data is essential for the efficient acquisition, integration and use of ocean observations gathered by the countries of the world for a wide variety of purposes including the prediction of weather and climate, the operational forecasting of the marine environment, the preservation of life, the mitigation of human-induced changes in the marine and coastal environment, as well as for the advancement of scientific understanding that makes this possible. During its twenty-second session (24 June - 4 July 2003) the IOC Assembly adopted Resolution IOC-XXII-6 entitled 'IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy
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