NationStates Jolt Archive

Information Accessibility Act
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Category: Human Rights Strength: Mild Proposed by: The Greatest Power (http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=the_greatest_power)

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RECOGNIZING human evolution as a race has depended on the preservation of prior knowledge and the further development of ideas,

OBSERVING citizens among nations share common interests that repeatedly has led to valuable joint efforts,

CONSIDERING public libraries provides an indispensable service to people sharing all publicly available information they are capable of,

CONVINCED citizens with limited knowledge are prone to abuses and possibly will have lesser possibilities to develop in their society,

NOTING WITH REGRET many times in history a variety of individuals restrained knowledge for their own good,

KEEPING IN MIND national regulations and laws on trade secrets, military classified data, citizens' privacy rights, and such,

AFFIRMING governments' responsibility on education, U.N. resolution "Education For All" implemented on January 8, 2003, and U.N. resolution "Free education" implemented on August 19, 2003,


The United Nations General Assembly:

1. URGES nations to interconnect their public libraries so their citizens have free access to global contents.

2. RECOMMENDS nations to establish information-access hubs along their territory to achieve a widespread access.

3. REQUESTS nations to supply their citizens with free fully understandable guides (written and or spoken) prior to any proceeding they have to abide by law (e.g. jury duty service.)

4. CALLS UPON nations' legislators to adopt new laws that warrant all information publicly available (from the private sector to the government) will be digitalized and hand over directly to public libraries.

5. REMINDS personal information held by private or public organizations should be protected from any illegal disclosure.

Voting Ends: Wed Apr 21 2004

For approval, please go to:
http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=UN_proposal1?match=accessibility

Thank you for your consideration.

This actually looks quite good. But other nations may have problems with it, and I'm not that good at immediately spotting mistakes, so I'll wait until others have cast their collective eyes over this proposal.

Okay, (Hello Enn!) I'm dropping in for a quick cut and critic, just to try to pick out anything obvious. Take no offence please, I am doing this mostly for your long term benefit, now, lets see,

Information Accessibility Act
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.

Well, seems reasonable so far. Yes, so far, :wink:

Category: Human Rights Strength: Mild Proposed by: The Greatest Power (http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=the_greatest_power)

Well, its certainly well displayed, and the link and bolding are quite a good idea. And for anyone reading, note that the link allows you to find the nation, and from there you could find their region, and thus snoop for back-ground info, if your that kind of obsessive complusive like me, :wink:

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RECOGNIZING human evolution as a race has depended on the preservation of prior knowledge and the further development of ideas,

Agreed.

OBSERVING citizens among nations share common interests that repeatedly has led to valuable joint efforts,

True, and with past proposals like Scientific Freedom could almost be considered a backing for this.

CONSIDERING public libraries provides an indispensable service to people sharing all publicly available information they are capable of,

Indeed.

CONVINCED citizens with limited knowledge are prone to abuses and possibly will have lesser possibilities to develop in their society,

Well, we do have Tactical Grace's Freedom of Choice proposal, I suppose this plus that could be considered to back each other up on this.

NOTING WITH REGRET many times in history a variety of individuals restrained knowledge for their own good,

Ah, yes, "for their own good", I think should be considered sarcasm, yes?

:)

KEEPING IN MIND national regulations and laws on trade secrets, military classified data, citizens' privacy rights, and such,

Good.

AFFIRMING governments' responsibility on education, U.N. resolution "Education For All" implemented on January 8, 2003, and U.N. resolution "Free education" implemented on August 19, 2003,

Nice, some solid backing here, always helps to get a foot in other passed law.

1. URGES nations to interconnect their public libraries so their citizens have free access to global contents.

Uh, Uh, Uh, idea-gasm, idea-gasm, yes yes yes !

This could be a little, errr, complicated, but this is brilliant, it gives ME another building block for my Data Vault proposal (Draws "TOP SECRET YOU FOOL" shroud back over his idea, :wink: )

I love it, this is uber-cool. I know my opinion just became a little biased, but heck, what can I say, I like this ! :D

Though I suggest "AFFIRMS" rather then "URGES", sounds more operative.

2. RECOMMENDS nations to establish information-access hubs along their territory to achieve a widespread access.

Love it. I don't care how much this could cost in RL, this is a great idea. Developed countries would already most likel have a communication net (Read as common or garden variety internet, :wink: ), which this data traffic could piggy back on.

3. REQUESTS nations to supply their citizens with free fully understandable guides (written and or spoken) prior to any proceeding they have to abide by law (e.g. jury duty service.)

Errr. Okay. This feels a little errr, rider-clase-esque, maybe you may want to explain it a bit better here.

4. CALLS UPON nations' legislators to adopt new laws that warrant all information publicly available (from the private sector to the government) will be digitalized and hand over directly to public libraries.

Indeed, and you covered your butt on the important things up there already, very nice.

5. REMINDS personal information held by private or public organizations should be protected from any illegal disclosure.

Good, good, good, still allows, plus relates to past law(Stop Privacy Intrusion), sov. states some power here as they already have.

Now, I don't know if this will get to quorum in time, I suppose it could still be polished and altered, but in its core ideas, I like it much.

* The Rep of Komokom raises his personal stamp,

{ PASS }

Please come up to the teachers desk for your gold star !

- The Rep of Komokom, Region Minister of Stuff. :wink:

it's not going to reach quorum, but I like it.

Gets my support.

Agreed, I doubt it will reach. It needs a long and note-worthy development time on the U.N. Forum, plus a broad telegram campaign, plus support of multiple Forum personalities, and, (huffs, puffs), and may need to be submitted several times.

But its still brilliant ! :D

- The Rep of Komokom, RMoS.