[Chapter-delegates] UN Development Goals

[Glenn McKnight]

The World Wide Web Foundation calls for the next set of UN development
goals to include access to information and freedom of expression
Feb 4, 2014 at 5:21 am * Gabe Trodd
The World Wide Web Foundation has joined hundreds of civil society
organisations and campaign groups from around the world in calling for the
next set of UN development goals to include access to information and
freedom of expression. The statement includes 195 signatories from civil
society organisations from 77 countries on all 5 continents.

The joint statement comes ahead of a meeting of the UN Open Working Group
for Sustainable Development Goals, which takes place in New York this week
- and will include further discussions on governance. Calling on the United
Nations to put government accountability and independent media at the
centre of a new framework for global development, the statement says:

'Human development in the coming decades will depend on people's access to
information. Ground-breaking new media and technology are enabling major
expansion of economic, social and political progress.

We believe that freedom of expression and access to independent media are
essential to democratic and economic development. Freedom of speech and the
media are means to advance human development and are ends in their own
right.'

You call see the full statement and list of signatories at:
http://www.article19.org/resources.php/resource/37435/en/post-2015:-access-to-information-and-independent-media-essential-to-development
Glenn McKnight
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