[Air-L] Kronberg Declaration on the Future of Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/ 
25109/11860402019Kronberg_Declaration.pdf/Kronberg%2BDeclaration.pdf

We, the members of a group of experts who met on 22 and 23 June 2007  
in Kronberg,
Germany, at the invitation of UNESCO and the German Commission for  
UNESCO, with
the generous sponsorship of BASF, discussed the future of Knowledge  
Acquisition and
Sharing over the next twenty-five years:
Recognizing that:
• Knowledge is the key to social and economic development;
• Creation, acquisition and sharing of knowledge have been going  
through dramatic
changes because of rapidly emerging new information and communication
technologies (ICT) and the societal transformations that they generate;
• New approaches are needed to bridge international knowledge gaps  
while ensuring
cultural and linguistic diversity;
• The Internet and new education technologies provide manifold  
opportunities for all;
• There is a need to continuously harness new technologies and  
processes to
develop knowledge societies that are people-centered, inclusive and  
development
oriented;

--snip---

Stress the need to:
a) Develop long-term strategies to efficiently harness the enormous  
potential of new
communication and information processes and technologies for  
developing new
approaches to knowledge acquisition and sharing;
--snip--
f) Provide opportunities for all to participate in networked social  
learning, which is
locally and globally relevant, which values tacit knowledge and  
enhances informal
learning;
g) Promote user-friendly ICT applications to make knowledge  
acquisition and sharing
available to everybody anywhere and anytime;
h) Support open access to and free flow of content through the  
development of open
standards, open data structures, and standardized info-structures, as  
well as other
elements of cyber-infrastructure necessary to support individual  
learners around
the globe;
i) Enable the creation of open content by practitioners in the  
developing world, and
generally ensure the development of culturally sensitive content;

etc.
--end--

to me this seems a wise move, though I'd support a stronger set of  
recommendations.


jeremy hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)

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