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Sergei BAKEYKIN
Executive Director, Interregional Library Cooperation Centre;
Vice Chair, Russian Committee,
UNESCO Information for All Programme;
Council Member, Russian Library Association
(Moscow, Russian Federation)
Promoting Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace:
Activities by the Russian Committee
of the UNESCO Information for All Programme
and the Interregional Library Cooperation Centre
The Russian Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Programme
(IFAP) acts as an expert board for the Commission of the Russian Federation
for UNESCO. It contains prominent librarians, archivists, museum specialists,
scholars, politicians, public officers, representatives of non-governmental
organizations and private companies. The Committee was established in
2000 to promote IFAP in Russia and to voice in UNESCO Russia’s views on
information policy.
Over the years of its existence, the Committee has held many events of the national
and international level in every priority action line of the IFAP, i.e. information
literacy, information preservation and accessibility, information ethics, and
information for development. A number of reports on these issues have been
prepared, over 60 books on the issues of knowledge society building are published.
The Russian Committee of the UNESCO Information for All Programme is not
a legal entity, hence to provide its efficient operation, it needs a working body
to elaborate specific projects and to look for the means of their implementation.
Interregional Library Cooperation Centre (ILCC), a non-governmental
organization with a legal status of “an interregional public organization”, has
become such a body.
ILCC was established in 1995, and since than it makes efforts in several
directions. ILCC has taken active part in the elaboration and implementation
of the national policy of reading promotion and is the developer of the National
Programme for Reading Promotion and Development in Russia. Within this
action field, since 2007 about 50 regional workshops and training sessions have
been held, over 20 books covering philosophical and sociological aspects of the
problem have been prepared and published, methodological recommendations
for regional authorities, libraries, educational institutions, and mass media
have been proposed.
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