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stephen
What is the IFLA Trend Report?
In the global information environment, time moves quickly and there's an
abundance of commentators trying to keep up. With each new
technological development, a new report emerges assessing its impact on
different sectors of society. The IFLA Trend Report takes a broader
approach and identifies five high level trends shaping the information
society, spanning access to education, privacy, civic engagement and
transformation. Its findings reflect a year’s consultation with a range
of experts and stakeholders from different disciplines to map broader
societal changes occurring, or likely to occur in the information
environment.
The IFLA Trend Report is more than a single document – it is a
selection of resources to help you understand where libraries fit into a
changing society. Before you go any further, make sure you:
* Read Riding the Waves or Caught in the Tide? Insights from the IFLA
Trend Report
* Find out more about the context and vision behind the Trend Report
* Learn How to Use the Trend Report and navigate the different
resources on offer
* See what topics and questions people are discussing on the Discussion
Forum
Trend 1: New technologies will both expand and limit who has access to
information
The ever expanding digital universe is bringing a higher value to
information literacy skills. This means those people who don’t possess
information literacy skills, basic reading and writing skills, or the
technical capacity to access the internet will increasingly face
barriers to inclusion. The nature of new online business models will
heavily influence who can successfully own, profit from, share and
access information in the future. Governments will take further steps
to regulate the flow of information within their borders. Questions
posed by the IFLA Trend Report include:
1. When information is so easy to share – can anyone really own it?
2. “You don't have permission to access that”: Will your Internet stop
at the border?
3. The world's information at your fingertips – but what can you do
with it?
Trend 2: Online Education will democratise and disrupt global learning
The rapid global expansion in online education resources is making learning
opportunities more abundant, cheaper and more accessible. As these evolve,
there’ll be increased
value placed on lifelong learning and greater recognition of non-formal
and formal learning. Questions worth considering:
If online education is free, then how much is it really worth?
If we’re learning together but studying alone – will online education change
the face of learning forever?
Will you ever need to remember anything ever again?
Trend 3: the boundaries of privacy and data protection will be redefined
Expanding data sets held by governments and companies are supporting
the advanced profiling of individuals, while sophisticated methods of
monitoring and filtering communications data makes tracking those
individuals cheaper and easier. What are the resulting impacts on
privacy, and protection of our personal information? Who’s profiting
from your personal information? Does your government know more about you than
you do? Who’s to be trusted more: your government or your search
engine? Or neither?
Trend 4 is: Hyper-connected societies will listen to and empower new voices and
groups
We’ve seen more opportunities for collective action realised with the
proliferation of mobile technologies around the world. Hyper-connected
societies are enabling the rise of new voices and groups, and promoting
the growth of single-issue political movements. What impact will
hyper-connected societies have on traditional political parties? Open
government initiatives and access to public sector data will continue to
improve, resulting in more citizen-focused public services.
Trend 5: The global information economy will be transformed by new technologies
This one may seem a little obvious, but trust us! There’s a lot of
fascinating questions and collisions arising from the transformative
nature of new technologies contained in the IFLA Trend Report.
The proliferation of hyper-connected mobile devices, networked sensors
in appliances and infrastructure, 3D printing and language-translation
technologies are profoundly transforming the information economy.
Existing business models are facing creative disruption, new innovations are
being developed and the ways we work, communicate with each other,
seek out information and discover new things have been changed forever.
Just a few questions up for consideration in the IFLA Trends Report:
1. When your phone, your car and your wristwatch know where you are at
all times – who runs your life?
2. Ymmärrätkö minua? Will automated translation lead to greater
multi-cultural understanding?
3. Will individuals and businesses be able to be economically active
from anywhere in the world?
About the IFLA Trend Report
In December 2011 the IFLA Governing Board set up a Steering Committee
to commission a major Trend Report modelling the evolving digital
information environment. The IFLA Trend Report is the result of twelve
months’ consultation with experts and stakeholders from a range of
disciplines to explore and discuss emerging trends in the information
environment, before turning the discussion over to libraries.
http://trends.ifla.org/
IFLA Congress News and Mediahttp://express.ifla.org/
WLIC 2013 conference papers
http://conference.ifla.org/ifla79/news/wlic-2013-conference-papers-now-available-in-the-new-ifla-library
STEPHEN B. ALAYON
Data Bank Senior Information Assistant
Library and Data Banking Services Section
Training and Information Division
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Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC)
Tigbauan, Iloilo 5021 Philippines
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