---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stuart Hamilton <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:24 AM Subject: [LyonDCL] IFLA launches toolkit to support Lyon Declaration Signatories to advocate for access to information in the UN post-2015 development agenda To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Dear Colleagues [Apologies for cross-posting] I’m very pleased to send you an update on the status of the Lyon Declaration, and to announce the launch of a new toolkit which will help signatories advocate for our objectives at national levels. The Lyon Declaration now has over 350 signatories. The signatories are truly global, from small libraries to huge associations, from development organisations working with access to information or ICTs, to human rights advocates and journalist associations. We are extremely pleased to have seen such a strong take up in such a short time since the launch on August 18th. We are adding more signatories every week and we encourage you to share the Declaration with your networks and national press and bring more organisations on board. Since the launch we have been concentrating on fulfilling our promise to create an advocacy toolkit to support library institutions and associations and other civil society organisations to advocate for the role of access to information in the post-2015 development agenda. The toolkit provides background on the issues and practical advice on how to set up meetings with government representatives. Template letters, talking points and examples of how libraries help meet development goals are included. It has been launched this week and is available for download from the IFLA website at: http://www.ifla.org/libraries-development/toolkit/ The toolkit will empower you to take the “asks” of the *Lyon Declaration *to policy makers in your country, and for that message to be heard at the UN. To achieve that, meetings with a large number of Member States need to be held. We hope that signatories of the Lyon Declaration will ask the UN Member States to: · Acknowledge the public's right to access information and data, while respecting the right to individual privacy; · Recognise the important role of local authorities, information intermediaries and infrastructure such as ICTs and an open Internet as a means of implementation. · Adopt policy, standards and legislation to ensure the continued funding, integrity, preservation and provision of information by governments, and access by people; · Develop targets and indicators that enable measurement of the impact of access to information and data and reporting on progress during each year of the goals in a Development and Access to Information (DA2I) report. The timeline until the final post-2015 goals are decided is short. If access to information is to be part of the discussion, action needs to be taken *now* and until September 2015. This urgency is echoed by Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands who was present at the Declaration’s launch in Lyon: *“I hope you will agree that collecting signatures for the [Lyon] Declaration is a start, not a result. So in that sense, I also invite you start thinking about what you will do on Friday, once the conference is over. Who will you call? What will you tell him or her? And what strategic and ambitious goals will that phone call pursue?” *Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, speech at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in August 2014 Our objective is that on 1 January 2016, Lyon Declaration signatories will be ready to support implementation of the new development agenda, and that governments will be seeking your involvement. To achieve this, we need all of you to get involved! *Next Steps* Read and use the toolkit! Set up meetings with your representatives, and report back to us so we can better adjust our strategy. We are keenly awaiting the release of the UN Secretary General’s synthesis report which is expected before the end of 2014. In this report we hope to see the Secretary General pull all of the strands of the post-2015 discussions together and give us an outline of the concrete next steps the UN will take regarding negotiations on the new framework over the next year. We will analyse the report and then report back to you so that you can plan your meetings accordingly. *Contact* Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions! For feedback on this toolkit, advice or feedback on meetings with decision makers, please contact: Fiona Bradley [email protected] and Stuart Hamilton [email protected] Kind regards, Stuart Dr. Stuart Hamilton Deputy Secretary General International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) P.O. Box 95312 2509 CH The Hague Netherlands 00 31 70 314 0884 Twitter: @ifladpa -- -- *Carolina Rossini * *Vice President, International Policy* *Public Knowledge* *http://www.publicknowledge.org/ <http://www.publicknowledge.org/>* + 1 6176979389 | skype: carolrossini | @carolinarossini
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