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The Russian IFAP Committee reported on UNESCO IFAP at the Tenth International Conference "Crimea 2003"
 
2003-28-06 (Moscow)
 
In the framework of The Day of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation at the Crimean Conference-2003 heads of the Russian Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Programme (IFAP) reported on this UNESCO Programme.
 
In their report Evgeny Kuzmin and Alexei Demidov noted that the main subject of the UNESCO IFAP is the human oriented information policy aimed at the development of person's potential, resources, skills, and knowledge. The Information for All Programme formulates the global ideas of the information development of global community and defines the common strategy, methods and tools for building a legal and free information society. The reporters presented Programme's goals, tasks, and structure, its main lines of action and its implementation in Russia. Problems of access to information in Russia were also discussed.
 
The Tenth International Conference "Crimea 2003": "Libraries and Associations in the Transient World. New Technologies and New Forms of Cooperation" took place in Sudak, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the Ukraine, on June 07-15, 2003. In 2003 the topic was “Library and Information Availability in the Modern World : Digital Resources of Science, Culture and Education”.