Together with its partners, the Russian IFAP Committee collects, systematizes and analyzes relevant publications and documents of Russia, UNESCO, the United Nations and other international organizations on the humanitarian issues of the formation of global information society and building the information society in Russia. A part of such materials, which are connected the closest with problems the Information for All Programme concerns, are translated and published in Russian in print and electronic form for free distribution between the largest Russian federal and regional libraries, educational establishments, and research and information centers.

 

Preference belongs to materials whose translation and publication can play the greatest role in the formation of scientific ideas of the humanitarian problems of building the global information society, and the formation on their basis of a scientifically sound policy of building the information society in Russia.

 

The publishing activities of the Russian IFAP Committee proceed in three fields:

 

 

 

 

 

The UNESCO Information for All Programme gives pride of place to tackling the problems of special training for life in the information society. Media and information literacy is the key concept of the Information for All Programme, and a new field of training and education of the public for adaptation to the information society. The concept of “information culture” is widely used in Russia alongside “information literacy”.

 

The Research Institute of Information Technologies in the Social Sphere, affiliated to the Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts, has become a universally recognized Russian center of theoretical studies of the formative problems of information culture and related applied research. Leading this work is Professor Natalia Gendina, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences and Institute Director. The Institute was established in 2000 to promote the implementation of the Information for All Programme in Russia by joint decision of the Kemerovo regional administration and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, which has sponsored the Russian IFAP Committee since its inception.

 

The concept of forming personal information culture elaborated by the Institute of Information Technologies in the Social Sphere of the Kuzbas with support of the Russian IFAP Committee is winning publicity not only in Russia but also worldwide. This concept includes the substantiation of general methodological principles and conditions of organizing information education, the model curriculum “ABC of Personal Information Culture” for various categories of students, and the elaboration of terms on which information education should be organized.

 

 

International Conference "Media and Information Literacy for Knowledge Societies"
 

 

Media and Information Literacy for Knowledge Societies (proceedings of the International Conference, Moscow, 24-28 June, 2012)

 

 

 

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The preservation of digital information – a new problemof our era – concerns the whole world, and everyman and woman. It arose at a time when electronic gadgetry is used in every sphere of life; when the volume of born-digital or digitized information is growing exponentially; when the variety of formats of information presentation, and the types and classes of digital objects is increasing apace; technology and software are being rapidly updated; the lifetime and reliability of present-day digital media do not meet the challenges of long-term information preservation; and last but not least, the virtual space of digital information impedes law enforcement and obliterates the borders between national jurisdictions. Despite all efforts, the preservation of digital information lags behind technical development and social changes. Information preservation is one of the five IFAP's strategic priorities.

 

 

 

 

Preservation of Digital Information in the Information Society (proceedings of the International conference, Moscow, 3-5 October, 2011)