Agenda

The purpose of the Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Governmental Public Domain Information is to build on this impetus to help develop and promote information in the public domain at the government level, with particular attention to access to information laws and information in digital form. 

The scope of these Policy Guidelines is limited to the discussion of key issues, principles, policies and procedures that can help to develop and promote the production, dissemination, preservation, and use of governmental public domain information at the national level. 

The Policy Guidelines aim to: 

·       Better define governmental public domain information and to  describe its role and importance; 

·       Provide an authoritative guidance to state actors on the developments of legal frameworks and policies on matters affecting the right to information;

·       Suggest principles that can help guide the development of policy, infrastructure and services for provision of information produced by governments to the public; 

·       Assist in fostering the production, archiving and dissemination of public domain information, with emphasis on ensuring multilingual content, where necessary; 

·       Help promote access of all citizens, especially including disadvantaged communities.