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08.06.2009 | Will the name of IFAP be discredited no longer?
On May 29, 2009, the Interregional Civil Organization in Support of UNESCO Information for All Programme, which misappropriated the name of UNESCO and its Information for All Programme, and has been abusing it for the preceding three years, has announced now that it “no longer finds it necessary to further associate its activities with the Programme of the same name”.

26.05.2009 | Internet for the blind: a project of the Research Institute of Information Technologies in Social Sphere
The Research Institute of Information Technologies in Social Sphere (NII IT SS)—the basic partner of the Russian Committee of UNESCO Information for All Programme in information culture—has designed an official website for the Kemerovo Regional Library for the Blind and Visually Handicapped.

13.02.2009 | Information for All Programme expansion discussed this week at UNESCO
The fifteenth meeting of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme (IFAP) was held on Tuesday and Wednesday, 10-11 February 2009. The two-day event brought together representatives of 8 Member States elected to the Bureau, as well as observers from governments and civil society.

03.02.2009 | New discussion on Open Educational Resources to start next week
The UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Community is launching a new three-week discussion on the subject of access issues.

16.01.2009 | United Nations Literacy Decade - High-level Symposium
High-level Symposium and Technical Consultation on the strategy for the second half of the United Nations Literacy Decade will take place at the UNESCO Headquarters, 26-28 January 2009

17.10.2008 | UNESCO's Executive Board endorses the Strategic Plan for IFAP
At its 180th session, in October 2008, the Executive Board of UNESCO considered and endorsed the revised Strategic Plan of activities for 2008-2013 of the Information for All Programme (IFAP). During the debate on the Strategic Plan for IFAP, Board Members, in the majority of their interventions, expressed satisfaction with the new orientations given to IFAP and underlined the importance of this Programme for the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and the objectives of the World Summit on the Information Society.

19.09.2008 | International conference set foundations for linguistic diversity in cyberspace
An international conference “Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace” addressed the issue of multilingualism on the Internet last July in Yakutsk, Russian Federation. The Conference was organized by the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Russian Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, in cooperation with the UNESCO Office in Moscow and the Russian Committee for UNESCO’s Information for All Programme. It was a significant contribution to the celebration of the United Nations International Year of Languages.

22.05.2008 | UNESCO's IFAP seeks comments on its Draft Strategic Plan
At its 5th session in April 2008, the Intergovernmental Council of the Information for All Programme (IFAP) considered the Draft Strategic Plan of its activities in 2008-2013 and finally decided to adopt it after an online public consultation giving all stakeholders an opportunity to comment and propose new ideas.

16.05.2008 | Statement by Dr Karol Jakubowicz, Chair of the Information for All Programme, on the occasion of the World Information Society Day, 2008
"Access to information is fundamental to all aspects of our lives," says Karol Jakubowicz, the Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Council of UNESCO's Information for All Programme in a statement relase on the occasion of World Information Society Day that is celebrated each year on 17 May.

02.04.2008 | Member States elect Karol Jakubowicz as new Chairman of IFAP Council
The Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme (IFAP) elected new Bureau members today at its 5th session at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. The twenty-six members of the Council nominated Mr Karol Jakubowicz (Poland) as the Chairman of the Bureau.

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