05-03-2004 (Paris) Finalists for IPDC-UNESCO Rural Communication Prize for 2003 Announced
Five projects in Madagascar, Nepal, Niger, Solomon Islands and Trinidad and Tobago were selected as nominees for the Rural Communication Prize of UNESCO's International programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), a competition for the most outstanding rural communications projects.
04-03-2004 (Paris) Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Joins UNESCO's “Women Make the News” Initiative
The Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) a group of major public service broadcasters of the Commonwealth, has announced that it will support the "Women Make the News” initiative by which UNESCO seeks to give more visibility to women journalists by assign them editorial responsibility on International Women’s Day 8 March.
04-03-2004 (Paris) Assistance to Baghdad University Library
The first activity of the Cultural Emergency Response (CER) of 25,000 Euro to help refurbish the Reading Room of the Central Library of the University of Baghdad, damaged during war in Iraq, has been concluded, according to a report of the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA).
03-03-2004 (Kingston) Caribbean Association for Distance and Open Learning Established
The first meeting of the Caribbean Association for Distance and Open Learning (CARADOL) that was created with the financial support from UNESCO was held yesterday at the Distance Education Centre of the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica.
02-03-2004 (Almaty) Training Course for Museolog Software Users in Almaty
A two-day training course for users of Museolog, a software for inputting and editing museum catalogues through intuitive graphical interfaces with forms and menus, will take place at the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Almaty on 4 and 5 March 2004.
01-03-2004 (Paris) WSIS Tunisia: Informal Discussions to Start in Tunis Tomorrow
Two-day preliminary discussions on the process, content and themes of the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in Tunis, Tunisia from 16 to 18 November 2005, are due to start tomorrow in the Tunisian capital.
27-02-2004 (New Delhi) New Community Media Initiative released by femLINKpacific
femLINKpacific (Media Initiatives for Women), a women's community media NGO based in Suva, has announced the release of its latest community media initiative, “fem'TALK: Sharing the Light”. The initiative includes a 40-minute community video accompanied by a 12-page viewing and discussion guide/community magazine. It was produced with assistance of the World Association of Christian Communicators and UNESCO.
26-02-2004 (Bangkok) Developing an ICT in Education Policy-Makers Toolkit
The development of an "ICT in Education Policy-Makers Toolkit" aimed at assisting policy-makers in diagnosing structural weaknesses of educational systems will be discussed during a UNESCO organized workshop in Bangkok from 2-4 March 2004. The toolkit is also intended to assess the cost-effectiveness of different scenarios with and without ICT and develop realistic strategies for implementation based on success stories and research results.
25-02-2004 (Paris) UNESCO's Intergovernmental Councils in the Area of Communication and Information Prepare Biennial Sessions
UNESCO is presently preparing this year's meetings of its two intergovernmental bodies in the area of communication and information. The Councils for the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) and for the Information for All Programme (IFAP), will be in session in Paris from 31 March to 2 April (IPDC) and from 4 to 6 May (IFAP).
24-02-2004 (Paris) Jailed Cuban Journalist Raúl Rivero Awarded World Press Freedom Prize 2004
The jailed Cuban journalist Raúl Rivero Castañeda was today awarded the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for 2004 by UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura, on the recommendation of an international jury.
24-02-2004 (Paris) Women Journalists to Become Editors-in-Chief on 8 March
To mark International Women's Day on 8 March 2004 and celebrate the high professionalism of women journalists, UNESCO is launching for a third time the global initiative "Women Make the News" calling on all media producing daily news to hand over editorial responsibility to a woman editor-in-chief on that day.
23-02-2004 (Paris) Parcourir le cyberespace à la recherche de la diversité linguistique
"Parcourir le cyberespace à la recherche de la diversité linguistique", tel était le thème de l’Atelier d’observation de la première langue, qui s’est tenu à Nagaoka, au Japon, du 20 au 21 février, dans le cadre des activités commémorant la Journée internationale de la langue maternelle. A cette occasion, un « robot-scruteur » du net, collecteur de données pour le recensement des langues sur Internet ainsi que l’Observatoire des langues en ligne ont été lancés.
21-02-2004 (Paris) UNESCO Director-General Condemns Murder of Peruvian Journalist
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura today condemned the murder of radio journalist Antonio de la Torre Echeandía in the city of Yungay in the Ancash region of Peru on February 14.
20-02-2004 (Jakarta) Series of Seminars on Press Freedom Ends in Indonesia
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) was concluded last week by the UNESCO Office in Jakarta in collaboration with Indonesia’s Press Council.
19-02-2004 (Quito) Preparation for Launch of Latin America and Caribbean Heritage Portal
The city of Cartagena, one of the five UNESCO world heritage sites in Colombia, hosted last week the “First Regional Workshop for Editors of the Latin American and Caribbean Heritage Portal” preparing a new web service on regional cultural heritage that is scheduled to be launched in about six month.
18-02-2004 (Almaty) Greenstone Training of Trainers' Workshop in Almaty
A two day UNESCO sponsored training of trainers' workshop on the development and sharing of digital library collections using the freely available Greenstone Digital Library software is presently being held at the Kazakh State Scientific Research Institute of Scientific Technical Information in Kazakhstan's capital Almaty.
17-02-2004 (Paris) Workshop on Documentary Heritage Preservation Started in the Philippines
A five-day workshop on the preservation of the world’s growing digital heritage organized by the Philippine Information Agency in cooperation with the South East Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) and the UNESCO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok has started yesterday in Quezon City, Philippines.
16-02-2004 (Paris) ICTs for Intercultural Dialogue - A UNESCO Project for Indigenous People
Preserving indigenous peoples’ cultural resources by fostering access to ICT, thus contributing to narrowing the digital divide – this is the aim of new project entitled "ICTs for Intercultural Dialogue. Developing communication capacities of indigenous peoples (ICT4ID)" that UNESCO has recently launched.
13-02-2004 (Paris) UNESCO Condemns Assassination of Broadcasters in Nicaragua and The Philippines
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura today condemned the killing of two radio broadcasters: Ruel Endrinal in Legaspi City in the Philippines on February 11, and Carlos Guadamuz in Managua, Nicaragua, on February 10.
13-02-2004 (Paris) UN ICT Task Force Global Forum on Internet Governance to be Held in March
A Global Forum on Internet Governance will be held on 25-26 March 2004 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, to bring together leading actors and all relevant stakeholders, including Member States, civil society and the private sector, interested in Internet governance issues.
12-02-2004 (Paris) Improving Lives of Elderly with ICT Focus of UN Event
The goal of enriching the quality of life of today's ageing population through ICT would be impossible without meaningful public diplomacy, according to one of the keynote speakers at a meeting held yesterday at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
11-02-2004 (Dakar) IT Training for Gambian Journalists at UNESCO Dakar Office
Twenty-seven Gambian journalists, who are currently undergoing a UNESCO sponsored journalism training in the Gambia, have been participating last month in a week long course aimed at building basic IT capacity, including web searching, at the Resource Centre of the UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa, in Dakar, Senegal.
10-02-2004 (Paris) UNESCO Condemns Murder of Colombian Journalist Oscar Alberto Polanco Herrera
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura today condemned the assassination of the journalist Oscar Alberto Polanco Herrera in the city of Cartago, in Valle del Cauca, in Colombia.“I condemn the murder of Mr Polanco. It is unacceptable and must be punished,” the Director-General said.
10-02-2004 (Paris) Oral Testimony - Life History Radio Programme Concluded
UNESCO and the Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA) have just concluded the "Oral Testimony" training and production project, resulting in 12 radio documentaries produced and broadcast through some 300 community radio stations in eight Western African countries.
09-02-2004 (Paris) Writing about Regional Strategies for Digital Arts and Electronic Music in Asia and the Pacific
For its coming June special issue, the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) invites artists, musicians, academics, researchers, practitioners, curators and critics in the field of new media, electronic music and digital art practices, to submit contributions addressing regional networking competence problems and realities in the Asia Pacific cultures.
06-02-2004 (Paris) UNESCO - IGNOU Gender Training Project
UNESCO in collaboration with Indian’s Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) announces the launch of a initiative for designing, developing and delivering gender training modules in the areas of empowerment and training, gender-sensitive policies, interventions and institutions; media, methods and approaches in gender training; education and research; leadership; governance and entrepreneurship.
05-02-2004 (Paris) JTS 2004: Preserving the Audiovisual Heritage - Transition and Access
The sixth Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) to examine issues of concern to audiovisual archivists will be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 24- 26 June 2004. The three-day event will examine different aspects of the theme "Preserving the Audiovisual Heritage - Transition and Access" under the auspices of UNESCO and in cooperation with the members of the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA).
04-02-2004 (Wellington) Schools’ Websites Preserving New Zealand Heritage
Three schools from around New Zealand have been recognised for their websites on local heritage with the inaugural UNESCO Living Heritage Award. The schools are Campbell’s Bay School, Auckland for World War Two at Our School, St Joseph’s School, Oamaru for The Walkways of Oamaru, and St Peter’s College, Palmerston North for Opiki Toll Bridge.
03-02-2004 (Paris) UNESCO Condemns Murder of Reporter in Pakistan, Welcoming Efforts to Punish the Crime
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura yesterday condemned the murder of Pakistani journalist Sajid Tanoli of the Urdu language daily Shumaal in Mansehra, in northwestern Pakistan on January 29.
02-02-2004 (Paris) UNESCO Deplores Death of Two Media Personnel in Iraq and Calls for Improved Safety
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura today deplored the death of two media personnel in Iraq on Tuesday and called for measures to improve the safety of journalists working in the country.
