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International conference: "Information as Public
Domain: Access through Libraries"
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International conference
"Information as Public Domain: Access through
Libraries"
Russian version
Program
DECLARATION
of the International Conference "Information as
Public Domain: Access through Libraries"
On 27-29 October 2004 St. Petersburg hosted the
International Conference "Information as Public
Domain: Access through Libraries", which was
attended by over 120 representatives of public
authorities, academic research organizations,
libraries and other institutions from Azerbaijan,
Armenia, Belarus, Great Britain, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzia, Moldova, Russia, USA,
Tajikistan and the Ukraine.
Having examined an extensive range of agenda
items, the participants of the Conference hereby
confirm their view that enabling access to public
domain information produced by public authorities
should become fundamental to the national
information policies of all nations striving for
democracy and freedom of human development.
Public authorities, as well as libraries,
archives and various information services
providers should assume a primary responsibility
for the expansion of openness and management of
information as public domain. The mainstream
principle of information management should be as
follows: information produced by public
authorities should be deemed publicly available,
and any exceptions to this rule officially
banning the said access should be justified,
minimized and supported by the power of law. The
national information policy and its legislative
and regulatory support should be based on the
presumption of openness of government
information.
The participants of the Conference take note that
any national information policy should reside on
the determination to develop a knowledge society
and a civil society. Libraries of today
constitute an indispensable institution of civil
society and an effective tool for building it.
Support of the development of library services
should be elaborated in national information
policies.
The participants of the Conference take note of
the need for meaningful efforts to implement the
key documents passed at the World Summit on
Information Society, i.e. the Declaration of
Principles and Plan of Action (2003), as well as
the Policy guidelines for the development and
promotion of government public domain information
(UNESCO, 2004).
28 October, 2004
Tavrichesky Palace, Saint Petersburg
Adopted by Plenary Session
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