Thank you for sharing this Andy.
I am very much in favour of supporting initiatives like this. For instance,
WMUK recently signed the Lyon Declaration on access to information and
development. I see these things as very much an extension / relation to the
Millennium Development Goals.
Would
An impressive number of reputable organisations have signed The Hague
Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age:
http://thehaguedeclaration.com/the-hague-declaration-on-knowledge-discovery-in-the-digital-age/
I think that WMUK should, too. It aligns closely with existing WMUK