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Chinese and Egyptian laureates to receive UNESCO prize for the use of ICT in Education

14-01-2009 (Paris)
Chinese and Egyptian laureates to receive UNESCO prize for the use of ICT in Education
Today, the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, will award the 2008 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education to the Chinese and Egyptian laureates, Zhang Deming and Hoda Baraka. Mr Matsuura will present each of the laureates with a diploma and US$25,000 during the ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters, in the presence of the Minister of Education of Bahrain, Majed Bin Ali Al-Noaimi.
Professor Zhang Deming, President of Shanghai TV University, will receive the prize on behalf of his university for its project Turning the Digital Divide into Digital Opportunity: The Project for Building the Digital Lifelong Learning System in Shanghai. The project reaches 230 community learning centres in the Shanghai area and addresses the needs for digital literacy of students, lifelong learners, working adults, senior residents and members of the general public from diversified backgrounds.

The project is exemplary both because of its quality and scale. Through satellite and network systems, high-quality digital educational resources are made available to remote and underdeveloped regions in China, including training teachers in rural areas and providing information technology services and teaching resources to rural schools. It also provides lifelong learning support to four million Shanghai residents and to an equal number of migrant workers. There are plans to use the programme to assist African and Asian countries in developing lifelong learning systems.

Dr Hoda Baraka, of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt, will be honoured for her leadership in the implementation of several national ICT projects in education. These include the ICT-In-Education Programme: Toward Ubiquitous Reachability to All Learners, an initiative consisting of an array of exemplary programmes designed to provide digital opportunities to Egypt’s citizens; and the Egyptian Education Initiative, which covers 2,000 schools, 17 public universities and 1,000 information technology clubs. The initiative has provided training to over 64,000 teachers and trains a further 45,000 teachers and administrators in digital literacy. The national projects aim to promote the use of ICT to enhance the quality of education, to fight illiteracy, and to provide quality and equitable education to remote areas, while addressing the needs of gender education.

The laureates were chosen from among 67 projects from 47 [*] Member States or observers. The Prize was created in 2005 and is placed under the patronage of HM King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa of the Kingdom of Bahrain.


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