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3 UNESCO�s Approach to Open-Access and Public-Domain Information
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From page 7... ... Second, most developing countries have thus far been unable to take full advantage of the advances offered by new ICTs in terms of access to scientific and technological information and learning opportunities, at least relative to the situation in the industrialized countries -- the "digital divide." If knowledge societies capable of generating new knowledge in a cumulative, cooperative, and inclusive process are to be created, they should be based on shared principles, particularly equitable access to education and knowledge. National policies, supported by international frameworks, can be a tool to facilitate access for all to essential information. Read the entire page →
From page 8... ... Thus, the UNESCO draft recommendation encourages member states to "recognize and enact the right of universal online access to public and government-held records" and to "identify and promote repositories of information and knowledge in the public domain and make them available to all." UNESCO is encouraging this process in international forums and also in its advice to member states, notably through the preparation of "Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Public Domain Information."2 OPEN-ACCESS AND VOLUNTARY AUTHORIZATIONS The public-domain principle can be extended conceptually by the assimilation of open-access information made freely available by its rights holders without cost. One well-known example of open access is the opensource software license by which computer programs are distributed free of charge by their authors for exploitation and cooperative development. Read the entire page →
From page 9... ... Numerous international programs are now showing that affordable access to commercial publications in developing countries is possible: notably the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative of the World Health Organization; the Pharmaceutical Education and Research Institute initiative of the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, created by ICSU and UNESCO in 1991; the electronic-Journals Delivery System of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy; and the more recent, ambitious initiative of the revived Alexandria Library, from its beginning a UNESCO project, to make virtually all of the world's books available through the Internet. UNESCO is looking carefully at ways to promote this type of initiative, for example, through model frameworks of voluntary permissions by which publishers and other rights holders could assign specific rights to users in developing countries, either definitively or on a limited time basis. Read the entire page →

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... Second, most developing countries have thus far been unable to take full advantage of the advances offered by new ICTs in terms of access to scientific and technological information and learning opportunities, at least relative to the situation in the industrialized countries -- the "digital divide." If knowledge societies capable of generating new knowledge in a cumulative, cooperative, and inclusive process are to be created, they should be based on shared principles, particularly equitable access to education and knowledge. National policies, supported by international frameworks, can be a tool to facilitate access for all to essential information.

Read the entire page →

From page 8...

... Thus, the UNESCO draft recommendation encourages member states to "recognize and enact the right of universal online access to public and government-held records" and to "identify and promote repositories of information and knowledge in the public domain and make them available to all." UNESCO is encouraging this process in international forums and also in its advice to member states, notably through the preparation of "Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Public Domain Information."2 OPEN-ACCESS AND VOLUNTARY AUTHORIZATIONS The public-domain principle can be extended conceptually by the assimilation of open-access information made freely available by its rights holders without cost. One well-known example of open access is the opensource software license by which computer programs are distributed free of charge by their authors for exploitation and cooperative development.

Read the entire page →

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... Numerous international programs are now showing that affordable access to commercial publications in developing countries is possible: notably the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative of the World Health Organization; the Pharmaceutical Education and Research Institute initiative of the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, created by ICSU and UNESCO in 1991; the electronic-Journals Delivery System of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy; and the more recent, ambitious initiative of the revived Alexandria Library, from its beginning a UNESCO project, to make virtually all of the world's books available through the Internet. UNESCO is looking carefully at ways to promote this type of initiative, for example, through model frameworks of voluntary permissions by which publishers and other rights holders could assign specific rights to users in developing countries, either definitively or on a limited time basis.

Read the entire page →

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3 UNESCO�s Approach to Open-Access and Public-Domain Information Pages 7-9

3 UNESCO�s Approach to Open-Access and Public-Domain Information
Pages 7-9