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Welcome to the web-site of the UNESCO Information for All Programme Russian Committee
Moscow region, Russia, 7-8 December 2009
The IFAP Bureau, in cooperation with the UNESCO Secretariat and the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, is organizing the First Consultation Meeting of IFAP National Committees. The meeting will be hosted by the Russian IFAP Committee and the Interregional Library Cooperation Centre, and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Russia and UNESCO.
The purpose of the meeting is to review and discuss a common approach to promoting the goals of Information for All Programme and to implementing IFAP’s Strategic Plan for 2008-2013, as endorsed by the UNESCO Executive Board in October 2008, at both the global and national levels.
On May 29, 2009, the Interregional Civil Organization in Support of UNESCO IFAP (ICOS), 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”.
The Russian Commission for UNESCO pointed out repeatedly to the leaders of the said organization their numerous trespasses and abusive acts. The arbitrary action of the ICOS in the respect of UNESCO and IFAP aroused great concern of Mr Karol Jakubowicz, Chair of the Intergovernmental IFAP Council.
After the shocking controversy made by the ICOS reached the ears of top UNESCO leaders, UNESCO Assistant Director-General Abdul Waheed Khan was forced to request Russian authorities to put a stop to illegal activities of the ICOS under the banner of UNESCO and its Information for All Programme. More...
In the coming years, the Information for All Programme of UNESCO will focus on the overarching objective of helping Member States develop and implement national information policies and knowledge strategies in a world increasingly using information and communication technologies (ICT).
The Programme will also focus on the following five priorities:
 National Program for Reading Promotion and Development in Russia: a step towards globalization and information society development
The Interregional Library Cooperation Center, an interregional public organization, is the working body of the Russian IFAP Committee since 2007 |
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First Consultation Meeting of IFAP National Committees 
Will the name of IFAP be discredited no longer?
