List of In Focus articles published in 2006
Indigenous People and ICT
UNESCO places a high value on mutual understanding, tolerance and a respect for the rights of individuals to a cultural identity and self-determination. Its ICT4ID project aims to foster the creation of local content reflecting the values of indigenous peoples.
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Libraries and Archives
Libraries and archives are essential to the free flow of ideas and to maintaining, increasing and spreading knowledge. Their focus is on content, not format, as human knowledge has been recorded on different medium: stone, paper, film, videotape, DVD.
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Measuring Linguistic Diversity on the Internet
UNESCO is emphasizing the concept of “knowledge societies”, which stresses plurality and diversity. An important element of this concept is multilingualism and participation for all the languages in cyberspace. >> Read more