Draft Interdoc Statement of Principles Interdoc is a network of like-minded individuals which considers itself part of a larger stream of social movements that advocate reforms in favor of the underprivileged, to attain development by empowering instead of exploiting the weak, working for the distribution instead of concentration of wealth, and harmonizing with instead of destroying the environment. Interdoc aims to address these concerns. Humanity's vast storehouse of knowledge, experience and information is a public commons that must be accessible to everybody.
Information is food for the mind.
Access to information is an essential factor for human survival and social progress. Sharing useful information multiplies its social utility. Interdoc will work to apply communication and information technologies towards empowering the weak, and enhancing the control by the marginalized over their own economic, political and social life. The right to information includes the right to use tools of communication and to access infrastructures for information exchange. Inequitable access to these tools and infrastructures due to cost or restrictions by corporate or government control, in effect denies the people the full exercise of their right to information.