Stuart Hamilton, IFLA Deputy Secretary General

No library left behind? Ambition, the SDGs, and the road to

sustainable information environments.

UN Millennium Development Goals (2000)

Timeline 1: Roadmap to 2030 Agenda

• Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (2012)– Outcome: ‘The Future We Want’ (June)

• UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel (2013)– Outcome: Report inc. ‘The Data Revolution’ (May)

• Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (2014)– Outcome: Draft SDGs (September)

• UN General Assembly (2014)– Outcome: Secretary General’s Synthesis Report (December)

• Inter-Governmental Negotiations (2015)– Outcome: Zero Draft Post-2015 Framework Document (June)

• Post-2015 Development Summit (2015)– Outcome: Post-2015 Development Framework: Declaration, SDGs, Means of

Implementation, Monitoring and Accountability (September)• SDGs begin (Jan 1, 2016)

• Information is fundamental for development – and libraries support this

• Information promotes better decision-making, helps people learn new skills

• Information helps people exercise their rights• Information promotes accountability

Advocating for access to information can create policy space for libraries to move into and become development partners

Why include access to information in the post-2015 development framework?

The Lyon DeclarationOn Access to Information and

Developmentwww.lyondeclaration.org

Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Target 16.10:“Ensure public access to information and protect

fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements”

Selected Goals and Targets• Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote

sustainable agriculture– Target 2.3 by 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small-scale food

producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment

• Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. – 3.1 by 2030 reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births

• Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all.

– 4.6 by 2030 ensure that all youth and at least x% of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy

• Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls– 5b. enhance the use of enabling technologies, in particular ICT, to promote women’s empowerment

• Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable– 11.4 strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage

Partnering with libraries is good for development

Publicly funded and sustainable

Locally based

Trusted by the communities they serve

Staffed by professionals

http://www.ifla.org/libraries-development

What does the Lyon Declaration ask for?

6. We call on Member States of the United Nations to acknowledge that access to information, and the skills to use it effectively, are required for sustainable development, and ensure that this is recognised in the post-2015 development agenda by:

a) Acknowledging the public's right to access information and data, while respecting the right to individual privacy.

b) Recognising the important role of local authorities, information intermediaries and infrastructure such as ICTs and an open Internet as a means of implementation.

c) Adopting policy, standards and legislation to ensure the continued funding, integrity, preservation and provision of information by governments, and access by people.

d) Developing targets and indicators that enable measurement of the impact of access to information and data and reporting on progress during each year of the goals in a Development and Access to Information (DA2I) report.

Timeline 2• Sci-Hub launched (September 2011)• Cost of Knowledge boycott launched (January 2012)• Harvard admits it cannot afford rising journal prices (April 2012)• Elsevier acquires Mendeley (April 2013)• UBC research shows five companies control over half of academic

publishing (June 2015)• Elsevier acquires SSRN (May 2016)

A Recipe for Disaster?

• Oligopoly• Vast profits• Inflation-busting price increases• Geographical disrepancies• Emerging markets already closed• Library budgets shrinking

“If your issue isn’t included in the SDGS…pretend it is.”

Danny Sriskandarajah, CIVICUS Secretary General

A Sustainable Long-term Information Environment (SLIE)

Literate, informed, and participative societies need sustainable, long-term access to information

• Creation: There must be favourable conditions to allow participation and engagement, and support the creation and understanding of information

• Use : There must be favourable conditions to allow information to be accessed, used, shared and disseminated

• Preservation: There must be favourable conditions to allow the long-term preservation of information and the historical record

• The Public Interest: There must be favourable conditions to allow equal access to information and protect the public interest

Creation: There must be favourable conditions to allow participation and engagement, and support the creation and understanding of information

Sample issues:Basic Literacy, Reading and Writing SkillsSkills and competencies (MIL, Web Literacy, Data Literacy)Freedom of ExpressionPrivacyUser-Generated ContentSelf-publishingPublishingPublic Lending RightOpen GovernmentTransparency and AccountabilityCivic EngagementCommunity NeedsMulticulturalismCoding

Policies: IFLA Statement on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom (1999)Glasgow Declaration on Libraries, Information Services and Intellectual Freedom (2002)IFLA Manifesto on Transparency, Good Governance and Freedom from Corruption (2007)IFLA Statement on Access to Personally Identifiable Information in Historical Records (2008)IFLA Multicultural Library Manifesto (2009)IFLA/UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Recommendations (2011)IFLA Manifesto for Libraries Serving Persons with a Print Disability (2012)Joint Statement on Literacy and Reading for International Literacy day (2015)IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment (2015)IFLA Statement on Public Lending Right (2015)

SDG Targets: 1.4, 4.6, 9c

External Positions: International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance (2013)

Use: There must be favourable conditions to allow information to be accessed,used, shared and disseminated

Sample issues:CopyrightLicensingFOI LegislationPublic Funded ResearchOpen AccessOpen DataText and Data MiningeBooks

Policies: IFLA Licensing Principles (2001)Joint Statement of Principles on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations (2009)IFLA Statement on Orphan Works (2011)IFLA Statement on Open Access (2011)IFLA Statement on Text and Data Mining (2013)IFLA Principles for library elending (2013)Library ‘Treaty’ on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations (2013)

SDG Targets: 2.3, 2c, 3.8, 4.1, 4.4, 4a, 4.6, 5.6, 8.3, 9c, 12.8, 16.6, 16.10

External Positions:UN Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights' Report on Copyright Policy and the Right to Science and Culture (2014)Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age (2015)London Manifesto on Fair Copyright Reform for Libraries and Archives in Europe (2015)Motores para el cambio: Primer Encuentro Iberoamericano sobre Derecho de Autor y Tratado de Marrakech (2015)

Preservation: There must be favourable conditions to allow the long-term preservation of information and the historical record

Sample issues:PreservationLegal DepositDigital Legal DepositFormat ShiftingSelection and curationMeta-dataRight to be ForgottenTraditional Knowledge

Policies: IFLA Statement on Legal Deposit (2011)IFLA Guiding Principles on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (2011)IFLA Principles of Engagement in library-related activities of disaster risk reduction and in times of conflict, crisis or natural disaster (2012)IFLA Statement on Right to be Forgotten (2016)

SDG Targets: 11.4

External Positions:UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the selection of digital heritage for long-term preservation (2016)

Public Interest: There must be favourable conditions to allow equal access to information and protect the public interest

Sample issues:DevelopmentLibrariesPublic Access to ICTsNet NeutralityZero RatingProvenanceMedia PluralityCommodification of InformationPublic DomainTrade Negotiations

Policies: IFLA/UNESCO Public Library Manifesto (1994)IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto (1998)IFLA Position on Internet Governance (2013)IFLA Statement on Libraries and Development (2013)The Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development (2014)IFLA Internet Manifesto (2014)Joint Statement of Principles of Public Access in Libraries (2016)IFLA Position on Internet Neutrality (forthcoming)IFLA Position on Zero Rating (forthcoming)

SDG Targets: 1.4, 4c, 8.5, 16.6, 16.10

External Positions:Manila Principles on Intermediary Liability (2015)Brussels Declaration on Trade and the Internet (2016)Cape Town Declaration (2015)

What does the Lyon Declaration ask for?

6. We call on Member States of the United Nations to acknowledge that access to information, and the skills to use it effectively, are required for sustainable development, and ensure that this is recognised in the post-2015 development agenda by:

a) Acknowledging the public's right to access information and data, while respecting the right to individual privacy.

b) Recognising the important role of local authorities, information intermediaries and infrastructure such as ICTs and an open Internet as a means of implementation.

c) Adopting policy, standards and legislation to ensure the continued funding, integrity, preservation and provision of information by governments, and access by people.

d) Developing targets and indicators that enable measurement of the impact of access to information and data and reporting on progress during each year of the goals in a Development and Access to Information (DA2I) report.

Ambition• Google’s mission statement: “to organize the world’s

information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

• Alexandra Elbakyan, Sci-Hub founder: “…the final goal is not only to download all the articles and books and give open access to them, but to change legislation is such a way that free distribution of research papers will not face any legal obstacles.”

• And from libraries…?