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Cultural Rights in the Digital Environment: A Conversation about Open Solutions to Connect with Heritage

Side Event Towards Mondiacult

17 September 16:00-17:00 CEST

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The Mondiacult 2022 Declaration included a commitment to fostering an enabling environment for the respect and exercise of all human rights, in particular cultural rights, in the digital environment. The Declaration further commits to building capacities to leverage digital technologies to enhance the safeguarding, promotion, digitisation, and inventorying of cultural heritage.

Efforts to enable open access to public domain heritage sits at the intersection between Mondiacult themes of cultural rights and culture in the digital environment. Assisting memory institutions and other actors to remove barriers, support interoperability, and create and share  new content with open licenses can strengthen equitable access to heritage. 

Ahead of the deliberations at Mondiacult 2025, IFLA and Creative Commons are excited to co-host this Side Event. The conversation will explore the intersection of cultural rights and the digital environment. It will serve as a call to action for memory institutions, policymakers, and civil society to join in shaping a more open and equitable future for heritage.

Co-Moderators:

  • Claire McGuire, Manager of Policy and Advocacy, IFLA
  • Brigitte Vézina, Director of Policy and Open Culture, Creative Commons

Panellists:

  • Alexandra Xanthaki, UN Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights
  • Tapani Sainio, Senior ministerial advisor, Ministry of Education and Culture, Department for Art & Cultural Policy, Division for Art & Cultural Heritage, Finland 
  • Silvia Gutiérrez, Senior Program Officer, Libraries, Wikimedia Foundation
  • Peter Scholing, National Library of Aruba

Contact: [email protected]

Disclaimer: FLA and Creative Commons are responsible for the choice and presentation of the ideas and opinions expressed in this side event, which do not necessarily reflect the views of UNESCO and do not commit the Organization in any way.