Publications from Information Society

Briefings

• Library Tech Needs and Readiness: A Briefing

• Community Networks: A Briefing for Libraries

• Get Connected: Public Access Policy Toolkit

• UNESCO's Internet Universality Indicators

• Get into the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Get into IGF

• WiFi4EU... and for Libraries

• Get into GAPMIL

Conference proceedings

• World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2011 Report

Congress papers

• Means, Don (2016): “Reaching the Rest of Us: Public Spectrum for Public Access” - Libraries lead in providing public access via TV WhiteSpace to help bring billions of new users into global digital conversation

Infographics

• Why Public Access Matters

• How to Spot Fake News – COVID-19 Edition

• How To Spot Fake News

Interviews

• Libraries and Fake News - Paper for Zagreb Roundtable on Freedom of Access to Information

• Libraries and Fake News - Paper for Zagreb Roundtable on Freedom of Access to Information

Leaflets

• Public Access: Supporting Digital Inclusion for All

• How Libraries Can Connect the Next Four Billion

Publications

• Get Into Safer Internet Day Guide

• Libraries Supporting Open Government: Areas for Engagement and Lessons Learned

• Internet Governance Guide for Libraries

• IFLA Resource Pack on Digital Literacy

• IFLA Statement on Internet Shutdowns: Further Resources

• Principles on Public Access in Libraries

Reports

• Libraries in Digital Skills Strategies

• The Role of Libraries in National Broadband Plans and Policies

• IFLA Submission on Italian Universal Periodic Review

• How Libraries Can Connect the Next Four Billion

• IFLA Input to 2018 WSIS Review

• IFLA Submission to the UN High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation

• IFLA Response to Consultation on the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age

• FAIFE Spotlight

Resource Guides

• International Human Rights Conventions and Declarations

• Intellectual Freedom & Human Rights Organisations

• International reports

• Human Rights Resources on the Net

• Internet censorship, filtering and rating

• Finnish Research Project Censorship and Control in the Internet Age

Standards

• IFLA Guidelines on Public Internet Access in Libraries

Statements

• IFLA Statement on Libraries and Open and Good Governance

• Library Pledge for Digital Inclusion

• IFLA-ICA Statement on Privacy Legislation and Archiving

• IFLA Statement on Censorship (2019)

• IFLA Statement on Fake News

• IFLA Statement on Digital Literacy (18 August 2017)

• IFLA Statement: No Development Without Access to Information - We Need Alternatives to Internet Shut-Downs (2017)

• IFLA Statement on Government Provision of Public Legal Information in the Digital Age (2016)

• IFLA Statement on Net Neutrality and Zero-Rating (2016)

• Policy Options for Connecting and Enabling the Next Billion - DC-PAL Input

• The IFLA Position on Internet Governance

• IFLA Statement on the Right to be Forgotten (2016)

• Joint Statement on Literacy and Reading for International Literacy Day (2015)

• Statement on the Ten-year Review of Progress Made in the Implementation of the Outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society

Studies

• IFLA Briefing: Books in Blockchains

Toolkits

• IFLA Intellectual Freedom Checklist

• IFLA Public Library Manifesto Advocacy Toolkit

• Net Neutrality Toolkit

• Libraries Fighting Fake News: Uses of the IFLA Infographic

• Data Protection in the EU: What Does it Mean for Libraries? (briefing)

Videos

• Lex Snowden – a Finnish Citizen Initiative to support whistleblowers’ protection

• IMMI – Icelandic grassroots innovation to legislation

Webinars

• General Data Protection Regulation: What Do the New EU Rules Mean for Libraries?