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Seminar held in Cairo on UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy Kit

09.12.2014 - Cairo, Egypt

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Cairo, Egypt 2014

Within the framework of UNESCO’s Activity "Fostering Media Information Literacy (MIL) and enhancing Journalism Education", UNESCO Cairo cluster office in collaboration with Swedish International Development Corporation (SIDA)  and Egypt’s National commission for UNESCO organized a seminar for the localization of the MIL Kit in the Middle Eastern and Northern Africa (MENA) region.

The objective was to raise awareness about MIL among policy makers/university professors/education planners/educationists and to encourage them to integrate the curricula  into their secondary school education. 

The seminar was organized from 1 to 2 December, 2014 at Hotel Fairmont, Nile City, Cairo. 45 delegates including policy makers, curricula experts and teachers from 9 countries (Algeria, Egypt, Qatar, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen) joined this seminar and deliberated on the strategies to adapt MIL in their respective countries.

The seminar was opened by the Director of UNESCO Office and Egyptian Minister of Higher Education delegated by the Deputy Secretary General of the National Commission of UNESCO in Egypt.

UNESCO Cairo Office engaged some experts to prepare the MIL kit which contains material on media and information literacy (MIL) that could be used in the MENA region. These materials were produced with some audiovisual materials. This kit was reviewed by the participants of the seminar.

In general, the MIL kit was approved and appreciated by the participants. They raised several issues, including adding more contents and more information from the Arab World in the kit. It was also recommended that all the materials in the MIL kit be translated into Arabic. Other recommendations include: Establishing an Arab network for MIL, outlining a pan-Arab strategy for MIL, opening Arab Chapter of The Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL), organizing a meeting for all the Arab Ministers of Education with the experts and inclusion of MIL curricula in the secondary school education in each country.

 

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