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Major Recommendations of Past ICDLs
2004 2006 2010
• Policymakers to take initiatives • Enact Digital Library Act • Re-emphasized the need for
in standardization of metadata, • Establish consortia for content enacting Digital Library Act
interoperability, and copyright creation • Re-emphasized the need to
issues • Democratization of evolve National Digital Library
• Development of a document information Policy
of multidisciplinary task force • Capacity- and capability- • Capacity- and capability-
• Preservation of India’s cultural building in DL building through public and
and literary heritage • National Digital Library Policy private sector partnerships
• Around 2.50 billion earmarked • Digital India Initiative (DII) • Harness DL technologies for
for digitization of 1.5 million • Setting up of an apex body for e-learning and open distance
documents within a period of the development of DL in the learning
3 years country
2013 2016
• Integrating DLs on a common platform for • Data and information form the foundation of all
comprehensive access activities related to SDGs.
• National Digital Library Platform that nations can • Access to information and data should be a
adopt towards digital deposit legislation universal right.
• Commission a national survey to assess the • No one left behind is the motto.
status of DL development in developing • Data and information are the drivers for:
countries (i) research, education, and lifelong learning
• National governments should fund and support (ii) business, government, and decision-making
policies and programmes for DL development in every sector
• Developing 2nd and 3rd generational DL (iii) empowering everyone in society including
youth, women, and people with special
needs
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2004 2006 2010
• Policymakers to take initiatives • Enact Digital Library Act • Re-emphasized the need for
in standardization of metadata, • Establish consortia for content enacting Digital Library Act
interoperability, and copyright creation • Re-emphasized the need to
issues • Democratization of evolve National Digital Library
• Development of a document information Policy
of multidisciplinary task force • Capacity- and capability- • Capacity- and capability-
• Preservation of India’s cultural building in DL building through public and
and literary heritage • National Digital Library Policy private sector partnerships
• Around 2.50 billion earmarked • Digital India Initiative (DII) • Harness DL technologies for
for digitization of 1.5 million • Setting up of an apex body for e-learning and open distance
documents within a period of the development of DL in the learning
3 years country
2013 2016
• Integrating DLs on a common platform for • Data and information form the foundation of all
comprehensive access activities related to SDGs.
• National Digital Library Platform that nations can • Access to information and data should be a
adopt towards digital deposit legislation universal right.
• Commission a national survey to assess the • No one left behind is the motto.
status of DL development in developing • Data and information are the drivers for:
countries (i) research, education, and lifelong learning
• National governments should fund and support (ii) business, government, and decision-making
policies and programmes for DL development in every sector
• Developing 2nd and 3rd generational DL (iii) empowering everyone in society including
youth, women, and people with special
needs
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