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UNESCO WSIS Action Directory
How UNESCO is implementing the WSIS Action Plan |
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Preserving indigenous peoples? cultural resources by fostering access to ICT, thus contributing to narrowing the digital divide is the aim of a project entitled "ICTs for Intercultural Dialogue: Developing communication capacities of indigenous peoples (ICT4ID)", which UNESCO has recently launched as the direct result of the International Forum on Local Cultural Expression and Communication held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on 3-6 November 2003.
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?Africa Animated!? is a UNESCO initiative that assembles resources and expertise for the production of children?s animated cartoons in Africa children?s programmes in Africa and in particular computer-animated cartoons are mostly imported from abroad, despite efforts by regional broadcasters and the audiovisual community in Africa to address the lack of local content production.
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The UNESCO/IOC African OceanPortal provides access to information and data on all aspects of ocean/coastal research and management for the benefit of various communities such as decision makers, the private sector, the research and education community and the general public.
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The project consist in developing a Unicode standard for N'ko a script used by the Manden people of West Africa, to the international character encoding standards Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. The project is being conducted by the University of California Berkeley's Script Encoding Initiative with the support of UNESCO's Initiative B@bel.
Once included in the standard and after a standardized font is developed, users will be able to use N'ko in email, on webpages, in blogs, or on other electronic documents. Currently, electronic text communication in the N'ko script is very difficult, impeding publication of newspapers, magazines, school texts and other books. For a population of 20 million, this presents a significant barrier to literacy efforts.
With the assistance of UNESCO's Initiative B@bel, a Unicode script proposal for N'ko was written by Irish script-expert Michael Everson, and has been approved for balloting by the relevant International Organization for Standardization working group. N'ko is on the path for inclusion in the next full release of Unicode (5.0). As part of stage two of the project, a font will be created and locale information identified.
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The project "Harnessing ICTs for the audiovisual industry and public service broadcasting in developing countries" aims to advise developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the potentials of ICT-enhanced broadcasting, both in their audiovisual industry and public service broadcasting. Member States are supported in their international commitments and national policies in the audiovisual field and ICTs, by analysing current trends in broadcasting and formulating recommendations to the various partners involved. A second component of the project contributes to bridging the knowledge gap between developed and developing countries by providing capacity-building in broadcasting and audiovisual policy and encouraging pilot innovative solutions. The third component concerns content development on major societal and development issues.
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The project ?ICTs as tools to improve local governance in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean? aims to use ICTs as tools for the reinforcement of social cohesion and local democracy in municipalities in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean region. Building on the successful experiences of the first project phase its main objectives are to provide best practices for introducing ICTs in municipal policies, to prepare training modules promoting the use of ICT tools for improving local governance and to enhance cooperation within and between NGOs of city professionals on the introduction of ICTs .
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