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UNESCO has supportd the creation of an INFOYOUTH Public Internet Café at the main library building in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, on the eve of the International Day for Youth (12th August 2003). The Internet Café, which has twelve Compaq Pentium 4 computers and a networked HP laserjet printer, is also equipped with a Galaxy satellite Internet system.
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Capacity Building
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The project, a follow-up to the Regional Workshop on School Libraries Services in Southeast Asia, organized with the joint efforts of IFLA and UNESCO in Bangkok in September 2003, examines the current state of information literacy teaching in Southeast Asian countries, and puts forward appropriate recommendations and action plans for the greater involvement of school libraries in the development of an information literate citizenry. The project comprises a preliminary workshop to establish a common platform for further investigation of information literacy, followed by national survey of the state of information literacy education and the role of school libraries in eight Southeast Asian countries, i.e. Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The results of the survey will be shared and used as basis to formulate recommendations and action plans for the further development of information literacy in the individual countries
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Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Local Content
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UNESCO supported standardization process for Ethiopic scripts as a precondition for local content development in languages in Ethiopia like Tigrina, Afar, Amharic and others (Part of UNESCO?s Initiative B@bel with support of UNECA and the Ministry of Capacity Building)
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Media
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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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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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Role of Governments and All Stakeholders
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The "UNESCO WSIS Action Directory" is a gateway to information on UNESCO's activities that contribute to the implementation of the Plan of Action of the World Summit on the Information Society
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Asia and Pacific: Timor-Leste
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Thousands of computers in libraries, schools and universities in Portuguese-speaking Africa (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe) and Timor-Leste will have access to some 20,000 titles of Portuguese-language books and periodicals from all over the world, as well as periodicals in English and Spanish, published by more than 150 publishers, including UNESCO, according to an agreement concluded by the Brazilian government and the Ebrary / E-libro web portal.
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The project includes the creation of a Multipurpose Resource Centre for Communities to regularly provide information about government services e.g. maternal health services, local elections and public seminars, which would be accessible to all community radio stations through the Community Radio Association based in the capital town, and subsequently to all communities concerned in various part of the country. Particular attention will be given to information services aimed at empowering women and young people in the communities (who are also key volunteers within the sector itself.). It also provides the infrastructure to archiving recorded material on local culture and educational materials e as well as Internet facilities and editing and production facilities
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Global
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The "Recommendation concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace" that was adopted by UNESCO's General Conference at its 32nd session (30 September ? 17 October 2003) proposes measures fostering universal access to digital resources and services, and facilitating the preservation of their cultural and language diversity.
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The "UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage" that was adopted by UNESCO's General Conference at its 32nd session (30 September ? 17 October 2003), provides a policy framework to take up the challnge that more and more of the world's cultural and educational resources are being produced, distributed and accessed in digital form rather than on paper. Born-digital heritage available on-line, including electronic journals, World Wide Web pages or on-line databases, is now part of the world?s cultural heritage. However, digital information is subject to technical obsolescence and physical decay.
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The UNESCO "Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Governmental Public Domain Information" have been prepared following an extensive review by concerned coordinating bodies in Member States and by a panel of experts.
This publication was prepared in response to 29 C/Resolution 28 of the UNESCO General Conference and closely corresponds to measures foreseen in UNESCO's "Recommendation concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace" and the Plan of Action of the World Summit on the Information Society.
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UNESCO's international initiative for Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs) promotes community empowerment and addresses the digital divide by combining community broadcasting with the Internet and related technologies.
The CMC programme offers a global strategy for addressing the digital divide in the poorest communities of the developing world and also among countries in transition. The CMC opens a gateway to active membership of the global knowledge society by making information and communication the basic tools of the poor in improving their own lives.
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Handbook on Community Multimedia Centres written by reputed practitioners and researchers working on CMCs or ICT for development, it is available in hard copy, CD Rom and on WebWorld.
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An international gateway to websites related to the development of the Information Society
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The "UNESCO Position Statement on Internet Governance" was prepared in February 2004 as a contribution to the international discussions on Internet Governance. The Statement stresses that Internet governance mechanisms should be based on the principle of ?openness?, encompassing interoperability, freedom of expression and measures to resist any attempt to censor content.
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A global strategy for a more efficient use of recycled IT equipment was developed by donor organizations and potential recipients at an international meeting held at UNESCO's Paris Headquarters on 14 and 15 March 2003. This meeting entitled "New Synergies for Recycling Information Technology Equipment" was triggered by a UNESCO working group set up to study the area of transfer of used technology.
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Framework of UNESCO's policy initiatives and pilot projects in the field of "People with disabilities and ICTs" in conjunction with key partners.
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UNESCO encourages its Member States to develop strong policies which promote and facilitate language diversity on the Internet, create widely-available online tools and applications (such as terminologies, automatic translators, dictionaries) for content in local languages and encourage the sharing of best practices and information. Initiative B@bel and the "Recommendation on the promotion of multilingualism and universal access to Cyberspace" are both examples of UNESCO?s efforts to promote multilingualism and an equitable, culturally diverse and harmonious Cyberspace.
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The study entitled "Measuring and Monitoring the Information and Knowledge Societies: a Statistical Challenge" was written as one of UNESCO's inputs to the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2003. Its focus is on measurement issues with regard to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and gives an overview of the data that exists as well as where the gaps lie. Issues relating to data quality are also addressed.
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Created in 2000, the Information for All Programme (IPAP) provides a platform for international policy discussions and guidelines for action on preservation of information and universal access to it, participation of all in the emerging global information society and ethical, legal and societal consequences of ICT developments. Its Intergovernmental Council is composed of representatives of 26 Member States guiding the planning and implementation.
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CDS/ISIS is an advanced non-numerical information storage and retrieval software developed by UNESCO since 1985 to satisfy the need expressed by many institutions, especially in developing countries, to be able to streamline their information processing activities by using modern (and relatively inexpensive) technologies.
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IDAMS (Internationally Developed Data Analysis and Management Software) is a software package for the validation, manipulation and statistical analysis of data, developed by the UNESCO Secretariat in co-operation with experts from various countries. It is a powerful information-processing tool for statistical analysis, data mining, creating and summarizing underlying knowledge in huge volume of raw information. The full software package for Windows is available upon request free-of-charge in English, French, and Spanish either on Internet for downloading or on a UNESCO Information Processing Tools CD-ROM.
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UNESCO?s action to provide people with the skills and abilities for critical reception, assessment and use of information in their professional and personal lives. UNESCO?s main strategy in the area of Information Literacy consists of awareness-raising about the importance of information literacy at all levels of the education process ? basic education, primary and secondary education, technical and vocational training and lifelong education ? and of establishing guidelines for integrating information literacy issues in curricula.
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This site prrovides access to national copyright and related rights legislation of UNESCO Member States. The collection currently comprises about 100 laws and is constantly being updated and completed.
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UNESCO Free Software Portal gives access to documents and websites which are references for the Free Software/Open Source Technology movement. It is also a gateway to resources related to Free Software.
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