IFAP Information Society Observatory

The Information Society Observatory, created with the financial support of the Information for All Programme (IFAP) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), aims to provide building blocks for the development of policies and strategies to support international co-operation and partnerships in "building an information society for all" by making accessible up-to-date information grouped around the IFAP five priority areas:

• Information for development;
  
• Information accessibility;
  
• Information literacy;
  
• Information ethics; and
  
• Information preservation.
  

The Observatory, which is both searchable and accessible through installation of a personal RSS news feed, will be continuously updated with new strategic documents, events, books, experiences, annotations, and links, following the developments of the respective field.

UNESCO invites members and partners to regularly consult and comment on the contents of the Observatory, and to provide new information on developments in the area of national and international information policy frameworks and on their implementation.

Searchable subjects include the following:

• Communications
  
• Culture
  
• E-government
  
• Economy
• Education
  
• Healthcare
  
• ICT
  
• Information society
  
• Infrastructure
  
• Open source
  
• Public administration
  
• Society
  
• Strategy