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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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UNESCO launched in 2003 its first project in Ethiopia establishing a partnership arrangement with the Adaptive Technology Center for the Blind (ATCB) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for training blind and visually impaired students, government employees and professionals to use computers equipped with adaptive devices.
The project objectives include the establishment of a computer training centre to assist accessibility of ICT to blind users in the society, training of blind and visually impaired people to operate computers with adoptive equipment and, furthermore, creation of public awareness that blind people can utilize their potentials for their use and the society using adaptive technology.
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UNESCO, together with UNDP and the British Council, supports the development of community multimedia centres (CMC) in Ethiopia. CMCs exists in Bahir Dar, Lalibela, Addis Ababa, Modjo, Assebot, Axum, Debre Birhan, Gondar and Wolisso. The nine centres serve as models for how communities can benefit from ICTs for development. They provide access to information on CD-ROM and on the Internet, offer networking possibilities with other communities within Ethiopia and abroad, and contribute to the work of community development initiatives, for example e.g. women groups, youth clubs and HIV/AIDS awareness groups. Especially access for out of school youth it is a promising experience to improve ICT literacy. Beside access to information, the production of local content on CD-ROMs and on the Internet contributes to and active participation of the community in the information society.
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Capacity Building
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As part of its "Bridging the Digital Divide" project, the UNESCO Office in Beirut in cooperation with the Safadi Foundation recently distributed more than 130 refurbished personal computers to 21 schools in the Northern Lebanon. Each school received 8 to 12 computers depending on the number of students and teachers were trained in how to use the new equipment.
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Training of trainers workshops in the use of ICT organized within the framework of the project "Establishing the Effective Use of ICT in Education for All in Cambodia".
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The Container Project , launched in 2003 is one of the few community computer access points in Jamaica. Soon expected to be mobile with a view to serving youth in marginalised communities all over this island-country, it is equipped with computers, internet connection and a young talented staff. UNESCO has been associated with this activity since 2000 and envisages further assistance within the framework of its programmes to create lifelong learning opportunities through community media and to support the development of community multimedia centres. Other partners of the project include local organizations, such as HEART/ NTA, Jamaica which certifies individuals in multimedia technology and facilitates the dissemination of information dealing with HIV/AIDS prevention, environment and sustainable development.
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The effective use of ICT for educational development in the disadvantaged western region of China requires favorable supportive policy environment, up-graded skills of teachers and other facilitators, locally relevant approaches to ICT application to education, and school nets for resources sharing.
However, provinces in the western region of China have had major problems in meeting the multi-faceted challenges to educational development by means of modern information-communication technologies
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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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The objective of the project "Building and Enhancing Infomation Networks between Local Communities" is to facilitate and document innovative models for local information networking; to combine the social and technological dimensions, in ways that facilitate practical use of information by poor women and youth for education, enterprise and income generation.
Based on ongoing research into specific local information environments, configurations and processes for operationalising local information networks will be developed. Networks will simultaneously identify needs,facilitate documentation and knowledge transfer, and especially access to information by poor and marginalised groups, particularly women and youth, notably in conflict and post-conflict areas.
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UNESCO is facilitating many communication and information initiatives in South Asia and other parts of the world. In South Asia, specific initiatives that all share a common focus on the application of ICTs for development, particularly poverty eradication, have been developed as part of a research network under the banner Putting ICTs in the Hands of the Poor.
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The Connecting Communities project seeks to reinforce and develop ICT capacity building in selected Pacific Island countries. This will assist the deployment of ICT infrastructure and in doing so promote ICT literacy, thereby achieving the key object which is to focus on connecting families living in Pacific Island countries with those living in New Zealand and in other countries.
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The main objectives of the project ?Improving Management and Delivery of Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) through the Application of ICTs? are to supply and equip departments or commissions of TVE, vocational education and training institutions, curriculum development centres with suitable computer equipment, Internet, multi-media software; to provide training in their use to directors, principals, curriculum developers, vocational teacher trainers; and to expand access to teaching and learning materials and to enrich delivery of TVE.
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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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To commemorate the 1600th anniversary of the creation of the Armenian alphabet, UNESCO, through its project Initiative B@bel, and the Matenadaran Institute in Yerevan have launched a project to enhance access to information in the digital environment for the Armenian language.
The project will develop a Unicode compatible font to overcome some current constraints in the use of the Armenian language in fields such as modern print and digital publishing.
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ICT Applications: E-science
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The Syrian Higher Education and Research Network (SHERN) project aims at building the core infrastructure and networking capacity and Intranet/Internet capacities for the purpose of developing active electronic exchange of information among all four national Syrian Universities and also Syrian research institutions. Such capabilities are also expected to provide the proper basis for future applications of e-learning and e-administration within academic networks. The theoretical and practical training received by the local teams during the course of this project is expected to result in enhanced capacities in modern technologies leading to the modernization of academic programmes and the development of new methodologies in teaching and research.
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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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Project funding of the capital, training and 1st year?s operating costs for the transfer of Samoan television programs to the Internet.
The project is aimed to bolster the Samoan language and culture, both in Samoa and to Samoans abroad. It is also aimed to increase Samoan?s IT literacy
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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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Europe and North America: Slovenia
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The project "Strengthening National Educational Capacities by Harnessing ICTs for Education and Diversifying their Application for Training Purposes" is aimed at developing a systematic educational use of ICTs for educational planning and policy-making, through multi-country ICT and education projects and through the sharing of information. The project is being implemented by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technology in Education (IITE), Moscow.
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Europe and North America: Turkey
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The Avicenna project, implemented by UNESCO in cooperation with the European Commission, is dedicated to accelerating the adoption and best use of ICT-assisted Open Distance Learning (ODL) in 11 Mediterranean non-EU Member States (MNMS). Demand for ODL in the target Universities and societies already exists. The project aims at establishing adequate local infrastructures and to transfer best practice and professional know-how within target universities.
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Global
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Project for the development of an international framework for the creation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
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Reel Intercultural Dialogue is a series of five short fiction films produced by UNESCO in collaboration with cinema and television schools in Burkina Faso, India, Israel, Mexico and Romania aiming at increasing intercultural understanding and sensitising young people to tolerance, dialogue and peace. While providing a reflection on the sources of conflict between communities and cultures, the films present alternatives to violence and cultural domination.
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Pilot initiative to innovate and research social and technological strategies to put ICTs to work in the hands of the poor under its ictPR Project. The focus is not on technology itself, but on its innovative use to empower the poor with tools to change their circumstances.
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