Intergovernmental Informatics Programme
The
Intergovernmental Committee for the Intergovernmental Informatics Programme
(IIP) was established in 1985 by Resolutions 6.2 and 6.3 adopted by the Twenty-third
Session of the General Conference, held in 1985 in
The Intergovernmental Informatics Programme
was established in order to "strengthen international co-operation and
national efforts devoted to the training of specialists, the development of
infrastructure, the definition of national policies and the better recognition
of the role of informatics".
In Resolution 23 C/6.3 on "Regional and
inter-regional co-operation in the field of informatics", the General
Conference, inter alia :
1.
Proposes that the Member
States of UNESCO should regard the Intergovernmental Informatics Programme
(IIP) as the basis for the development of international and regional
co-operation;
2.
Recommends that the
Member States of UNESCO should create national informatics committees to
co-ordinate the development of co-operation by countries with each other and
with UNESCO in the field of informatics;
3. Proposes that
the Member States of UNESCO should view with favor the question of exchanging
information, both with each other and with UNESCO, on the development of
informatics in their countries.
On the
recommendation of the PGI Council and IIP Committee, the General Conference
authorized the Executive Board to create the Information for All Programme (30
C/Res. 36, 1999) merging the General Information Programme (PGI) and the
Intergovernmental Informatics Programme. The activities carried out by these
two programmes did no longer respond neither to the needs of the information
society nor to the new requirements of UNESCO in this area (160 EX/Dec.3.6.1).
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