Round table on community access took place in Morocco
27-02-2008 (Rabat)
Youth ICT centre in Maghreb.
© UNESCO
In the framework of the Innovative Teachers' Forum, UNESCO and Microsoft organized on 22 February 2008 in Rabat a round table to evaluate community access initiatives in Morocco.
UNESCO's World Report "Towards Knowledge Societies" formulated several recommendations to be included in national strategies in order to ensure better implementation of knowledge policies. One of these recommendations suggests increasing the number of community access centres, many of which already exist in Morocco. These centres are part of e-Morocco Strategy which aims to create conditions for digital inclusion and to set up adequate infrastructure, community access and capacity building centres.
Several public and private initiatives comprise these elements with the objective to enable the young to access information and to have capacity building opportunities in ICT.
Governments, experts and practitioners in the education sector increasingly recognize that information and communication technologies (ICT) can play an important role in supporting educational improvement and reform. Community access centres can enable young people to use technology to become better information seekers, analysers, problem solvers and communicators.
The round table aimed at analyzing the current state of existing initiatives and evaluating how they can be mutually used to offer better capacity building opportunities to young people.
Several public and private initiatives comprise these elements with the objective to enable the young to access information and to have capacity building opportunities in ICT.
Governments, experts and practitioners in the education sector increasingly recognize that information and communication technologies (ICT) can play an important role in supporting educational improvement and reform. Community access centres can enable young people to use technology to become better information seekers, analysers, problem solvers and communicators.
The round table aimed at analyzing the current state of existing initiatives and evaluating how they can be mutually used to offer better capacity building opportunities to young people.
Related themes/countries
· ICT in Education: News Archives 2008
· Youth and ICT: News Archives 2008
· Access to Information: News Archives 2008
· Morocco: News Archives 2008
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