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The pilot training programme ?ICTs and people with disabilities?carried out in cooperation with the Ability Foundation of India seeks to promote equal opportunities for persons with hearing and physical impairments enter the employment sector. To support this, the project will develop an employment oriented training facility offering a range of courses including ICT training. The training will also including counseling and other support aimed at enhancing the self-esteem of trainees. The project will also support broader social awareness raising efforts aimed at overcoming stereotypes and discrimination particularly among prospective employers. The lessons learnt and the training curriculum developed in this project will be made available via the web.
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This project on information literacy aims to provide people with skills and abilities for critical reception, assessment and use of information in their professional and personal lifes. It is being run jointly by the Hanoi University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) Centre Library and Vietnam Development Information Center (VDIC).
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An information literacy project for headmasters of schools participating in Ghana?s Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) was launched with the support of UNESCO?s Information for All Programme. The objectives of the project are to provide a series of ICT training courses for fifty headmasters and teachers from selected ASPnet schools.
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UNESCO?s Information for All Programme (IFAP) is supporting a project to promote information literacy training in secondary schools and libraries in Tamale, in the northern region of Ghana. It was launched in September 2005 and is being implemented by the Centre for Information Technologies, Research and Development (CITRED), a Ghanaian-based non-governmental organization. The main aim of the project is to increase opportunities that will broaden the network of secondary schools participating in information literacy programmes in the northern region of Ghana.
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This one-year project is being implemented by the Juvenile Development Centre, a Nigerian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), in collaboration with the Nigerian National Commission for UNESCO. The project is supported by UNESCO?s Information for All Programme (IFAP) as part of an advocacy campaign to encourage the country?s Government to get involved in information literacy. It aims at providing computer and Internet training to about 360 students and 120 teachers from 30 primary and secondary schools from six local government areas of three senatorial districts in Plateau State. Training will also be extended to information professionals in media, libraries, NGOs and Government institutions.
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Capacity Building
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Sri Lanka has launched professional development programmes to train teachers in the use of computers. However, most of these training activities are crash programmes, which focus on computer literacy per se and do not enable teachers to return to their classrooms with the ability to use the computers in teaching their assigned subjects.
Teachers still require not only training in computer literacy, but also in how to apply various educational software in teaching and learning and how to integrate this resource into their classroom activities and school structure.
This project will therefore aim at helping upgrade knowledge and skills of teachers and facilitators in genuinely integrating educational technologies in their work. More broadly, it will also aim at tapping the potential of new ICT (including distance education methods) for more easily accessible and better teachers education and professional development, supporting teacher education reforms taking place in many countries, and reducing the gap between and within countries in terms of qualified teachers trained in new learning environments.
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A two-day UNESCO training course on establishing and strengthening information centres in school libraries in oblasts in the Southern part of Kazakhstan was organized in Almaty from 22to 23 April 2004.. Some 25 librarians participated in the event that aims at enhancing existing library networks and expanding them to rural areas in order to increase the number of libraries as information access points .
The agenda included presentations, for example on the potential of rural school information networks in the Information Society and virtual libraries, and hands-on exercises, for example on the automation of library processes, and the creation of inventories and booklists from e-catalogues.
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Computer skills training courses for Philippine workers are being organized in Beirut (Lebanon) as a result of an innovative arrangement between UNESCO Beirut and the Philippine Embassy in Lebanon. The computer course is part of a training programme organized by the Philippine Embassy in Lebanon. Other courses include baking, cooking, hair technology and sewing. The programme started two years ago and aims at providing non-skilled Filipino workers with a broad base of skills needed in the Philippines. The courses include training on the use the Internet, basic software programmes and email.
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This project contains two integrated parts. Part one includes a research study which seeks to collect and analyze principal statistical data from individual media organizations in the project countries to include women?s overall share of jobs (full-time and part-time) in all media surveyed, women?s positions and levels of responsibility and how women?s share of jobs is distributed in print and broadcast media. Part two comprises a 2-week capacity-building program for young women journalists which seeks to equip them with editorial, negotiation and managerial skills in order to increase their opportunities to embark on higher level decision-making editorial jobs and to empower them with knowledge that will help them assess and better plan their professional career and development.
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Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Local Content
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As part of its support to Youth and Community, the UNESCO office in Beirut teams up with the Ministry of Tourism, municipalities, international and local NGOs and the private sector to ?Promote Rural Tourism using ICT?. This pilot project started by selecting five regions in Lebanon (Bchari, Niha, Hasbayya, Saida and Kfardibian) and to train people in the use of ICTs for promoting tourism. So far, more than twenty college graduates were trained on project management to be able to assist their community to improve and enhance tourism services.. The activity is planned to be up-scaled to all parts of Lebanon and to other sectors beyond tourism.
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ICT Applications: E-government
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The online course on local e-governance in the Caribbean, that are being sponsored by UNESCO, the University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre (UWIDEC) and the Institute of International Relations, St. Augustine, Trinidad (IIR) are designed to improve the knowledge, skills and capabilities of people in governmental and non-governmental agencies and organizations in the Caribbean in the use of ICT in governance and government. The course is based on a similar one originally written and successfully delivered for UNESCO by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Spain. The course on local e-governance in the Caribbean does not assume any formal tertiary or higher education qualification, but it does assume that participants will have relevant post-secondary experience and training. The pilot version of the course runs for ten (10) weeks from September 19 to November 25, 2005. Full scholarships are available for this first offering, but it is anticipated that there will be considerable competition for places.
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Media
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A series of seminars on promoting press freedom and the Indonesian Press Law of 1999 specifically targeted to law enforcement authorities (i.e. judges, prosecutors, lawyers, police, organized by the UNESCO Office in Jakarta in collaboration with Indonesia?s Press Council.
The seminars that were held in 11 major cities across Indonesia since late 2002 gathered nearly 600 participants gaining awareness and understanding on the importance of press freedom and on the implications of Indonesia?s Press Law.
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The purpose of the online training course on ?News-reading and Commercial Production for Radio? developed by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union and the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development with support by UNESCO is to develop the critical faculties of radio broadcasters to develop a personal understanding of the judgments needed in the practice of the art, craft, and science of effective communication.
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Global
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Laid out in four substantive guidebooks, this kit is targeted especially towards policy- and decision-makers, school managers, practitioners, teachers and principals. Guidebook One provides a general overview and discusses how ICTs have been understood to improve the value and quality of education. Guidebook Two looks at planning a schoolnet programme, in terms of infrastructure, professional development, online content, curriculum integration etc, as well as ways in which to integrate change management, the sustainability of schoolnet activities and how can we better institutionalise programmes. Guidebook Three is more hands-on and practical. It is targeted towards the people actually running the projects ? looking at the educational and social value of online communities, technological components, the different ways in which technologies can be adapted and so on. Guidebook Four is a practitioners? guide, setting out the typical processes which they may follow.
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The objective of OceanTeacher is to provide training tools for Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange. OceanTeacher is a comprehensive training system covering both Ocean Data Management and Marine Information Management modules. OceanTeacher is now used fully during all IODE regional training courses.
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UNESCO is leading a group of partners in the production of a complete suite of open access, multimedia workshop- ready training materials, the ?Multimedia Training Kit? or MMTK.
The MMTK aims to promote and support linkages between new and traditional media for development through a structured set of materials. The materials are based on standard set of templates, and are intented to be used as building blocks from which trainers can build up training workshops appropriate for their own contexts.
The MMTK will eventually offer a comprehensive suite of training materials covering technical, content, organizational and ethical topics such as "presenting a radio" or "writing for the Web".
MMTK materials are released under a creative common license which allow their free use and distribution for non-commercial use.
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UNESCO and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization have launched the ?Digitization and Digital Libraries? module to teach librarians and laymen how to digitize documents and put them on line and create virtual libraries.
The kit, available from the FAO and UNESCO free of charge, is compatible with a wide range of computers, Pentium I and later, as well as older operating systems, making it particularly well-suited for users in developing countries.
The interactive module includes 15 hours of training which users can personalize to meet their particular needs at their own pace. The kit, which features a comprehensive course on how to create virtual libraries, is equally suited for beginners and more advanced users.
The module contains a technical glossary and search function, as well as a wide range of resources such as recommended reading, practical guidelines, software and manual. An on-line community will be launched in association with the module to allow learners to exchange views, share information, and request help from each other.
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