The 2009 Archives of the UNESCO Courier provides links to all the monthly issues of UNESCO's principle online magazine as well as to three special issues.
Monday, November 30, 2009
The UNESCO Courier 2009
The 2009 Archives of the UNESCO Courier provides links to all the monthly issues of UNESCO's principle online magazine as well as to three special issues.
Focus on UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST)
This is a 20-minute film that describes the UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Program. The program is the flagship for UNESCO's Social and Human Sciences program, focusing on the use of social science results by governments, civil society and academia to improve social and economic development processes and decisions.The video is primarily in French, but includes sections in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The non-English portions have English subtitles.
My computer played the video using the Windows Media Player.
U.S. UNESCO category 2 centre on freshwater
On Thursday 29 October 2009, the outgoing Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, signed with Major General Don T. Riley, Deputy Commanding General of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), an agreement establishing the UNESCO International Centre for Integrated Water Resources Management (ICIWaRM) in Alexandria, Virginia.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Atlas of Transboundary Aquifers
The worldwide Internationally Shared Aquifer Resources Management (ISARM) Initiative is an UNESCO and IAH led multi-agency effort aimed at improving the understanding of scientific, socio-economic, legal, institutional and environmental issues related to the management of transboundary aquifers. Since its start in 2000, ISARM has launched a number of global and regional initiatives. More than 200 transboundary aquifers have been identified. Inventories undertaken in the Americas, Asia, Africa, South-Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus, and Middle East have been already published separately. This Atlas presents a compilation of available data.
UNESCO publishes WSIS Followup brochure
The brochure, entitled Fostering Information and Communication for Development, is a short introduction to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and its follow-up. It presents different aspects and outcomes of WSIS. Read more!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
UNESCO Institute for Statistics Report on Research and Development
The number of researchers in developing countries jumped from 1.8 million to 2.7 million in five years (2002-2007), according to the new data release from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). The rise in numbers of researchers equates to a 45% increase, from 344 to 499 researchers per million inhabitants in developing countries. During the same period, the number of researchers in developed countries increased by only 8.6% to 4.4 million. In relative terms, this amounts to 3,592 researchers per million inhabitants, still far more than in developing countries.
The information was collected through the third UIS survey on statistics of science and technology (S&T), which is conducted every two years. It focuses on human resources devoted to research and development (R&D), as well as expenditure on R&D. Results of the survey reveal global and regional trends in the allocation of R&D resources.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The UNESCO Courier: Memory and History
Image source: UNESCO
This issue of the UNESCO Courier (2009, Number 9) was produced in partnership with UNESCO’s Memory of the World program.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Happy Birthday UNESCO
The Constitution of UNESCO, signed on 16 November 1945. Yesterday Irina Bokova began her term of office as 10th Director General of the Organization. Best wishes to both!
Sunday, November 15, 2009
UNESCO contributes to the fourth Internet Governance Forum
UNESCO will participate in the fourth Internet Governance Forum, to be held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, from 15 to 18 November 2009, to advocate the principles of freedom or expression and universal access as fundamental elements of the Internet Governance structures.Wednesday, November 11, 2009
World Science Day for Peace and Development: 10 November
Celebrated each year on 10 November, World Science Day for Peace and Development provides an opportunity to shine the spotlight on the contribution science makes to achieving sustainable development and enhancing the prospects for peace.
Thursday, November 05, 2009
UNESCO is recruiting a new senior staff
UNESCO has published the announcements of the competitive recruitment of the following posts:
- ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR AFRICA DEPARTMENT
- ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR COMMUNICATION
- ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR CULTURE
- ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR EDUCATION
- ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR NATURAL SCIENCES
- ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES
- ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION
- ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR ADMINISTRATION
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
UNESCO pays tribute after death of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss
The world has lost one of its greatest thinkers with the death of Claude Lévi-Strauss, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said today, as he paid tribute to the renowned anthropologist.
Mr. Lévi-Strauss was “one of the giants of the 20th century,” said Koïchiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General, in a statement issued from the agency’s headquarters in Paris following the announcement of the Frenchman’s death at the age of 100.
Monday, November 02, 2009
A World of Science, vol. 7, no. 4
The October-December issue of UNESCO's A World of Science is now out. Click here to download the issue as a PDF file.
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The October-December issue of the lead social science online magazine of UNESCO has been published. Click here to download the PDF file.