The Bureau of the Intergovernmental Council of the Information for All Programme (IFAP) held yesterday its 28th meeting

news_20022018_ifap.jpg © UNESCO 20 February 2018The meeting provided an opportunity to review the substantial progress achieved in 2017 in the six priority areas of information literacy, information preservation, information for development, information accessibility, information ethics and multilingualism in cyberspace. The recommendations of the 9th session of the Intergovernmental Council for IFAP to intensify cooperation between the IFAP Council, Bureau, Working Groups, National IFAP Committees, the Secretariat, UNESCO Intergovernmental Bodies, as well as other partners were discussed. This…

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