UNESCO is giving a high priority to the use of ICT for more equitable and pluralistic development in education, aiming to: expand the knowledge base about the issues,

The broad questions on which UNESCO focuses are:

• How can one use ICT to accelerate progress towards education for all and throughout life?
  
• How can ICT bring about a better balance between equity and excellence in education?
  
• How can ICT help reconcile universality and local specificity of knowledge? and
  
• How can education prepare individuals and society to benefit from ICT that increasingly permeate all realms of life?

Several points must be borne in mind as one pursues these questions. First, ICT are only a part of a continuum of technologies, starting with chalk and books, all of which can support and enrich learning. Second, ICT, as any tools, must be considered as such, and used and adapted to serve educational goals. Third, many ethical and legal issues intervene in the widespread use of ICT in education, such as ownership of knowledge, the increasing exchange of education as a commodity, and globalization of education in relation to cultural diversity.

19-05-2011 (Moscow) 

Workshop on Open Educational Resources to take place in Moscow

02-05-2011 (Windhoek) 

UNESCO OER Platform to be tested at celebrations of World Press Freedom Day in Windhoek

15-03-2011 (Bangkok) 

Collection of E-Learning Tools: UNESCO releases two CD-ROMs

14-02-2011 (Paris) 

US$12 million project for ICTs in West African universities

21-01-2011 (Rabat) 

UNESCO invites universities in the Mediterranean region to participate in the “Open Digital Space for the Mediterranean” (e-Omed) project

03-12-2010 (Paris) 

ICT-Competency Framework for teachers workshop

19-10-2010 (Bangkok) 

Indonesian teacher educators revamp ICT-based curricula

28-09-2010 (Bangkok) 

UNESCO’s Bangkok Office releases regional guide on ICT in education

19-08-2010 (Windhoek) 

Establishment of Namibian digital education library on agenda of today’s meeting in Windhoek

23-07-2010 (Paris) 

ICTs in Education Prize: Call for nominations

05-07-2010 (Kathmandu) 

Nepal en route for introducing for ICT in education

19-05-2010 (Brasilia) 

International Conference on ICT in education extends discussion to general public

22-04-2010 (Brasilia) 

UNESCO discusses use of ICT in basic education

24-02-2010 (Paris) 

UNESCO-supported e-learning association launched in Middle East

19-02-2010 (Bangkok) 

UNESCO’s Bangkok Office starts new ICT in education project funded by Korean government

03-02-2010 (Bangkok) 

Popular e-learning CD on ICT in education now available online

10-12-2009 (Montevideo) 

Meeting in Montevideo discussed ICT statistics in education

30-11-2009 (Paris) 

Rector of Moscow Institute of Open Education and Jordan’s Ministry of Information and Communications Technology to receive 2009 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize

02-09-2009 (New Delhi) 

International Conference on Academic Libraries to be convened in Delhi

12-08-2009 (Brasilia) 

UNESCO presents ICT training project for teachers to Brazilian managers in education

10-08-2009 (Paris) 

ICTs in Education Prize: Call for nominations

09-07-2009 (Paris) 

ICT changing the face of higher education

26-06-2009 (Paris) 

UNESCO releases new publication on open educational resources

24-06-2009 (Pretoria) 

Community development project gets off the ground in South Africa

08-06-2009 (Paris) 

Technology alone will not bridge knowledge divides

27-05-2009 (New York) 

UN forum discussed use of new technology to fight poverty, improve health

27-05-2009 (New York) 

UN announces launch of world’s first tuition-free, online university

06-05-2009 (Paris) 

UNESCO Future Forum will discuss prospects of knowledge acquisition

23-04-2009 (Beijing) 

Open Training Platform to become a hub for Cyber Network for Learning Languages

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