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Given its intellectual and moral mandate, UNESCO
concentrates on the "content" aspects of the Information Society, including
information access, training and ethical issues.
These aspects include :
info-ethics
issues (access to information, privacy, confidentiality, security of information).
observing
national information policies and legal frameworks or codes of practices.
fostering
the access to diversified contents for the "info have-nots", by developing
a strong "public domain" of information accessible on-line and off-line
promoting
cultural and linguistic pluralism in the Information Society, including
access to the virtual "Memory of the World"
promoting
standards and cooperation in information categorization, labelling and
filtering
training
in the information age and in the context of globalization, with particular
attention given to the needs of information professionals and trainers
(journalists, librarians, archivists, documentalists, computer specialists),
user communities (educators, scientists, members of social and cultural
organizations) and governments.
participating
in the global cyber-culture, with special attention to youth needs.
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