Three new projects to advance inclusive knowledge societies for IFAP’s 25th anniversary
The rapid evolution of digital technologies and artificial intelligence is transforming how people interact with information, yet persistent digital divides, inequalities, risks to information integrity, and linguistic and cultural gaps risk leaving many people behind.
The Information for All Programme’s 25th anniversary in 2026 provides a timely opportunity to respond to these challenges and advance its six priorities—information literacy, information accessibility, information preservation, information ethics, information for development, and multilingualism.
On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, IFAP aims to strengthen global commitment and policy action for inclusive knowledge societies, generate and share new knowledge and policy recommendations on emerging issues, and revitalize its National Committees worldwide.
The IFAP Bureau has decided at its 35th session to provide support from the IFAP Special Account to three projects in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean to advance meaningful and inclusive access to reliable information for all.
The initiative led by the UNESCO Regional Office for West Africa, contributes directly to the global celebration of 2026 International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI). It will bring together African information custodians, including librarians, archivists, museum and documentation professionals, to examine how information preservation and accessibility can strengthen information integrity in the digital age. The project will develop principles and best practices to help information custodians safeguard authentic, reliable and traceable information, and address misinformation, disinformation and manipulated content.
The initiative led by the UNESCO Regional Office for the Caribbean, jointly with the IFAP Working Group on Information Accessibility, will pilot accessible and ethical AI tools to transform knowledge from the Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility (AI4IA) conference series into accessible, evidence-grounded resources for policymakers, researchers and other stakeholders. This project will strengthen Caribbean–African knowledge sharing and build capacities to develop reliable and inclusive knowledge products using frontier technologies.
Building on this focus on accessible AI, the initiative led by the UNESCO Regional Office in Santiago will strengthen the critical AI literacy of teachers, students and education officials by connecting IFAP’s network with UNESCO’s Regional Observatory on Artificial Intelligence in Education. This initiative will produce a regional evidence-based brief on media and information literacy and AI in education, and support capacity building for IFAP National Committees to promote the responsible and ethical use of AI.
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