[Cddc] Fwd: [Asis-l] [Fwd:IAMCR Announcing the International
Researchers Charter
jeremy hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
Mon Oct 3 11:24:23 EDT 2005
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> Below is an initiative from some colleagues engaged with the
> ongoing World
> Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) processes now ongoing, and
> culminating
> in the Phase II Summit in Tunis on November...
> This is part of our own Communication Rights initiatives to greater
> access of
> all to knowledge...
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> ANNOUNCING THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHERS' CHARTER
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> The International Association for Media and Communication Research
> (IAMCR)
> is planning to launch the Charter below in Tunis, after having
> announced it
> in its prepcom3 side-event.
>
> We are seeking YOUR SUPPORT either as an individual, an NGO, a
> family or a
> caucus to support the Charter and to broadcast it as widely as
> possible.
>
> Please take some time to read the principles and their
> implementation and
> then go to the following address for endorsement :
> http://www.PetitionOnline.com/iamcr/
>
>
> For any more information you can contact the IAMCR-WSIS taskforce
> or go the
> site < iamcr.net>
>
> Divina Frau-Meigs and Marc Raboy,
> coordinators of the IAMCR-WSIS taskforce
>
>
>
> Text of charter below:
>
> The International Researchers¹ Charter for Knowledge Societies
> < an IAMCR contribution to the WSIS <
>
> Worldwide, research activity is confronted by diminishing budgets and
> increasing control of output by a variety of actors including
> governments,
> while researchers are being submitted to unprecedented and deleterious
> changes in their status, salaries and the independence of their
> investigations. The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) has
> helped to foster discussion worldwide on the need for unhindered
> and equal
> access to the means of communication and information content. The
> importance
> of information arising from high quality research in the humanities
> and the
> sciences has not, however, been sufficiently emphasized during the
> Summit.
> It has not emphasized the central role played by researchers in
> producing
> information, in promoting a better understanding of media and ICT
> systems
> and their content and functions, and in developing culturally relevant
> content and fostering communication in support of the attainment of
> inclusive and people-centred Knowledge Societies. Therefore, the
> International Association for Media and Communications Research
> (IAMCR)
> calls upon researchers worldwide to subscribe to the following
> Researchers¹
> Charter principles and recommendations for action:
>
> Charter Principles:
>
> 1. Researchers worldwide constitute a community of scholars
> that is
> central to the development of societies in which knowledge,
> information and
> culture are produced and appropriated in the service of humankind
> and in
> which researchers are entitled to seek, retrieve, receive and
> distribute
> information freely, regardless of geographical borders and the
> medium used,
> supported by information exchange enabled by ICTs;
>
> 2. Researchers¹ work should be conducted in working conditions
> which acknowledge that research is crucial to knowledge production and
> intellectual development and that researchers¹ contributions to
> knowledge
> are significant in achieving a better understanding among peoples,
> cultures
> and disciplinary traditions;
>
> 3. Researchers should be entitled to intellectual freedom
> and to
> transparent evaluation of their results by independent, legitimate
> public
> bodies; to express themselves as freely as possible without
> censorship or
> curtailment of the distribution of their intellectual outputs using
> all
> media and ICTs so as to maintain and expand the global public
> domain of
> research and to foster the capacity to contribute to cultural
> diversity, as
> well as to ensure informed participation by all citizens in social,
> cultural
> and economic activities, thereby promoting a democratic environment
> at all
> levels and in all contexts;
>
> 4. The results of publicly funded research should remain in
> the
> public domain so as to support the development, education and
> welfare of the
> general population; public archives, libraries, repositories of
> content and
> other Internet and information services worldwide should be
> accessible to
> researchers without barriers to access;
>
> 5. The universal free exchange among researchers of intellectual
> work should be regarded as being of critical importance to
> maintaining a
> democratic order; it is integral to capacity building for equitable
> development, to overcoming differences in gender and training,
> particularly
> with respect to women and junior researchers especially in developing
> countries, and in accessing other resources essential for
> development; it
> must be regarded as a common good and nurtured as a participatory and
> collective process involving a network of distributed intellectual
> work that
> contributes to lifelong capacity-building in all realms of human
> activity;
>
> 6. Culturally appropriate learning and research practices should be
> developed to foster community-based self-supporting systems of
> research; to
> promote open, collaborative and self-organizing publishing models and
> software development methods that are accessible to researchers and
> available in not-for-profit databases, libraries and archives; thereby
> supporting researchers as content producers and as active
> participants in
> the open access paradigm of knowledge creation and exchange, as
> outlined in
> various initiatives.[1] <#_ftn1>
>
> Implementing the Charter:
>
> a. IAMCR invites all researchers, including educators and computer and
> information science professionals, to adhere to the above
> principles, by
> signing this Charter.
>
> b. IAMCR invites researchers to strengthen opportunities for
> cooperation and
> exchange and to foster communication with all sectors of society
> with the
> aim of promoting greater understanding of the role and relevance of
> research
> and knowledge and their wide dissemination in society, by mobilizing
> decision makers worldwide to develop clear policies to implement
> the above
> principles.
>
> c. IAMCR recommends the establishment of an independent international
> Researchers¹ Complaints body where researchers can lodge complaints
> about
> violations of the above principles and receive an unbiased hearing;
> such a
> body should have a mandate to make cases public and to publicise
> university
> administrations and governments that violate these principles.
>
> Signing this Charter:
>
> IAMCR invites the world¹s leading bodies that support these
> principles and
> individuals to sign this Charter at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/
> iamcr/
> and to disseminate this Charter widely.
>
> Contact: divina.frau-meigs at univ-paris3.fr
>
>
> [1] <#_ftnref1> Budapest Open Access Initiative
> (http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/www/?issue=4 ), Berlin
> Declaration
> (http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html ),
> Creative
> Commons (http://creativecommons.org/ ), Open Courseware Initiative
> (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html ), IFLA Internet Manifesto
> (http://www.ifla.org/III/misc/im-e.htm), etc.
>
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