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Access to education is a fundamental right, as well as a tool for combating illiteracy, marginalization, poverty and exclusion. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer vast opportunities to effectively and affordably provide quality education for all.
Background
Access to education is a fundamental right, as well as a tool for combating illiteracy, marginalization, poverty and exclusion. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer vast opportunities to effectively and affordably provide quality education for all. Educational systems around the world are under increasing pressure to use ICTs to teach students the knowledge and skills they need in the 21st century.

Improving the quality of education through the diversification of contents and methods and promoting experimentation, innovation, the diffusion and sharing of information and best practices as well as policy dialogue are UNESCO’s strategic objectives in education.

The Dakar Framework for Action, adopted in 2000, highlighted the need to harness information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support Education for All goals at an affordable cost. These technologies have great potential for knowledge dissemination, effective learning and the development of more efficient education services. This potential will not be realized unless the new technologies serve rather than drive the implementation of education strategies. To be effective, especially in developing countries, ICTs should be combined with more traditional technologies and be more extensively applied to the training of teachers.

Purpose and Periodicity of the Prize
The purpose of the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education is to reward projects and activities of individuals, institutions, other entities or non-governmental organizations for excellent models, best practice, and creative use of information and communication technologies to enhance learning, teaching and overall educational performance.

The Prize, created in 2005 following a donation made by the Kingdom of Bahrain, shall consist of a sum of US$50,000 (a cheque and a diploma), to be equally divided between two prize winners, and shall be awarded every year, on an initial basis for three biennia.

Nomination and Selection of Prize Winners
Candidates for the Prize are proposed to the Director-General of UNESCO by governments of Member States, in consultation with their National Commission for UNESCO, and by international non-governmental organizations, maintaining formal consultative relations with UNESCO and active in the relevant fields covered by the Prize. Each government or international non-governmental organization is entitled to nominate only two candidates per year. A self-nomination cannot be considered.

The two prize winners shall be selected by the Director-General of UNESCO on the basis of the assessments and recommendations made to him by an international jury. The jury, appointed by the Director-General of UNESCO for a period of six years, shall consist of five independent members, of different nationalities and gender.

Click here to download the UNESCO Circular Letter (in PDF format) and Application Instructions (in PDF format).

Award of the Prize
The 2006 Prize shall be awarded by the Director-General of UNESCO at an official ceremony held for that purpose at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 12 January 2007.
Contact: Mariana Patru (m.patru@unesco.org)
 
  





 

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