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WSIS Action Directory
How UNESCO is implementing
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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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To promote principles and metadata standards to facilitate cooperation and effective use of collected (scientific) information, UNESCO supports the work of the International Centre for the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN), a eight-digit number which identifies periodical publications as such, including electronic serials.
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UNESCO works closely with the University of Waikato (New Zealand) to enhance the open source "Greenstone" digital library software to enable easy and flexible use by librarians in making their collections available in digital form. The full package is available free-of-charge in English, French, Russian and Spanish on a UNESCO multilingual CD-ROM.
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Capacity Building
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The ?E-government toolkit for developing countries?published by UNESCO and India?s National Informatics Centre (NIC) aims to help policy makers and senior executives in developing countries on how and when to start successfully e-government projects . The toolkit, that is available on CD-ROM, aims to demystify the concepts behind e-government and strengthen the understanding of all those involved in the planning and execution of e-government projects. It offers an action framework involving all stakeholders in developing countries including parliamentarians, government executives, institutions as well as non governmental organizations and guide them through various phases in their e-government initiatives. In addition to a conceptual overview, the toolkit includes chapters on e-readiness , the preparation of an e-government action plan, advice on how to build human capacity, develop infrastructure and build partnerships and discusses the issue of legislation and regulatory frameworks. Recommendations on the creation of a national portal a single entry point for e-government elements are also included. Finally the toolkit includes guidance on how to develop performance indicators for e-government plan and to assess the usability of government portals / websites.
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ICT Applications
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Building on UNESCO?s Free Software Portal, the main goal of the project ?Free open source software for information processing and education? is to promote and encourage use of free open source software in the Organization?s fields of competence and to contribute to their development and distribution as ?global public goods? serving UNESCO?s Member States. A web-based collaborative working environment will catalyse and coordinate the production and dissemination free-of-charge of selected UNESCO open source tools for processing information, communicating knowledge and facilitating education. The whole development is based on the ?Open Source Software/Free Software? (OSSFS) development model, thus encouraging international solidarity, collaboration and voluntary community work among institutions, programmers and computer users.
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Asia and Pacific: India
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Generic and easily customizable browser that acts as a gateway to a community?s knowledge, communication and empowerment. It enables communities to quickly and efficiently build their own gateway website, enriched with their own local content and connected to knowledge sources and services that are tailored according to their own information and communication needs.
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The purpose of UNESCO's Virtual Laboratory Toolkit is to provide information and free software tools. They are relevant for the creation of a Virtual Laboratory. This Toolkit should enable scientists in the developing countries to establish and participate in basic Virtual Laboratories. Two types of tools which play an important role are covered: person-to-person (P2P) communication and person-to-equipment (P2E) communication.
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BeeBox is an open source application for the development of Community portals. Its architecture allows multiple authors to submit content. The system further allows multiple administrators who can validate submitted content prior to publication. The system uses easy WYSIWYG interfaces for content input.
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UNESCO, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) in Delhi, the Open Knowledge Network (OKN) and UNESCO have created a partnership to develop a new software tool ? to be called Open eNRICH - for the creation and exchange of locally relevant knowledge within and between communities in developing countries.
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