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UNESCO and Information Policy: an historical perspective
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Abstract This chapter provides a short history of UNESCO's activities relating to information policy. It focuses on the political dynamics and debates surrounding the creation of UNESCO's two intergovernmental programmes explicitly dedicated to information: the General Information Programme (PGI), created in... mehr
This chapter provides a short history of UNESCO's activities relating to information policy. It focuses on the political dynamics and debates surrounding the creation of UNESCO's two intergovernmental programmes explicitly dedicated to information: the General Information Programme (PGI), created in 1977, and the Information For All Programme (IFAP), which replaced the former in 2001. Both creation processes took place against the backdrop of highly politicized debates about information being a public resource or a commodity and the question of bridging the gap between industrialized and developing countries. The research is based on the analysis of archival records, interviews, policy texts and secondary literature, and seeks to situate UNESCO's efforts related to the formulation of national and international information policies in the institutional as well as the political contexts. It thus contributes to a better understanding of past and present policy debates about the value of information and global inequalities.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Informationspolitik; Informationsgesellschaft; UNESCO
Klassifikation
Medienpolitik, Informationspolitik, Medienrecht
Freie Schlagwörter
Information For All; UNISIST; information economy
Titel Sammelwerk, Herausgeber- oder Konferenzband
Research Handbook on Information Policy
Herausgeber
Duff, Alistair S.
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Verlag
Edward Elgar Publishing
Erscheinungsort
Cheltenham
Seitenangabe
S. 96-112
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/261286
ISBN
978-1-78990-358-4
Status
Preprint; begutachtet
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung