The Preservation of Memory and the Management of Information as a Step towards Sustainable Development

Q3 Social Sciences

WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development Pub Date : 2023-04-20 DOI:10.37394/232015.2023.19.30

Susana Martins, M. Carvalho, Cláudia Pinto

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Abstract

Sustainable development comprehends the balance between human activities and the environment. Today, more than ever, the need to act with respect for the environment and the urgency in recognizing that we belong to the planet, and not the other way around, have accelerated and generalized the demand for information about environmental sustainability, economic and social concerns, and the discussion about which Humanity should adopt paths to save the species. The United Nations 2030 Agenda recognizes access to information as a critical goal in the Sustainable Development Goal of promoting peaceful and inclusive societies, access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels. In a global and inclusive society, people's access to information and the need to protect fundamental freedoms is necessarily the founding principle of the path to achieving global sustainability. The understanding of the world and society has always been founded on the study of the past, the knowledge of history, traditions, and memory. Only knowledge of memory allows us to know where we come from and to determine where we are going. Memory, which is nothing more than informational heritage, a generator agent of value and distinctive identity, is essential to create, distinguishing, and enriching socioeconomic activities based on the realities of the environment and local cultures towards socioeconomic and environmental sustainability and inclusion. In this paper, we intend to highlight the crucial role of information professionals in sustainable development, as they play unique and privileged roles in the preservation of people's identity and culture, as well as in the collection, research, processing, protection, promotion, enhancement, and transmission of information, which guarantee the viability of Humanity's cultural heritage and access to information as one of the goals of sustainable development.

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保存记忆和管理信息是迈向可持续发展的一步

可持续发展包括人类活动与环境之间的平衡。今天，比以往任何时候都更需要尊重环境，更迫切地认识到我们属于地球，而不是地球属于我们，这些都加速并扩大了对有关环境可持续性、经济和社会问题的信息的需求，以及关于人类应该采取哪些途径来拯救物种的讨论。《联合国2030年议程》承认，信息获取是可持续发展目标的一个关键目标，该目标旨在促进和平与包容的社会，使所有人都能诉诸司法，并在各级建立有效、负责任和包容的机构。在一个全球性和包容性的社会中，人们获得信息和保护基本自由的需要必然是实现全球可持续性道路的基本原则。对世界和社会的理解总是建立在对过去的研究、对历史、传统和记忆的了解之上。只有记忆的知识才能让我们知道我们从哪里来，决定我们要去哪里。记忆只不过是一种信息遗产，是价值和独特身份的产生者，对于创造、区分和丰富基于环境现实和地方文化的社会经济和环境可持续性和包容性的社会经济活动至关重要。在本文中，我们希望强调信息专业人员在可持续发展中的关键作用，因为他们在保护人们的身份和文化，以及在信息的收集、研究、处理、保护、推广、增强和传播方面发挥着独特而优越的作用，从而保证了人类文化遗产的可行性和信息获取作为可持续发展的目标之一。

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WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development Social Sciences-Development

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