Sep 01 2014
The Lyon Declaration
Ubiquity Press has signed the Lyon Declaration “On Access to Information and Development”. This is a very important call for the United Nations to make access to information an important part of its new set of development goals:
“We, the undersigned, believe that increasing access to information and knowledge across society, assisted by the availability of information and communications technologies (ICTs), supports sustainable development and improves people’s lives.
We therefore call upon the Member States of the United Nations to make an international commitment to use the post-2015 development agenda to ensure that everyone has access to, and is able to understand, use and share the information that is necessary to promote sustainable development and democratic societies”
We would love to see more open access publishers sign the declaration, as it strongly supports our role and ambitions in disseminating knowledge and positively impacting the world.
The full text of the Declaration is available at http://www.lyondeclaration.org