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Friday, November 11, 2005

An African View of the Upcoming World Summit on the Information Society

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Read the full Daily Champion (Lagos) article online at allAfrica.com . "Efforts at making the second phase of the World Summit on the ...
Thursday, November 10, 2005

US against multinational role in Internet: France

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Read the full Reuters/Yahoo!News article. "The United States will not heed requests by the European Union and other countries to a...

Fears that the United States may withdraw from UNESCO over Convention on Cultural Diversity

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Read the full story published by Embassy (Canada's Foreign Policy Newsweekly). " UNESCO Cultural Treaty On the Rocks, Fearing ...
Wednesday, November 09, 2005

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded today to Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn

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Read about the award on the Google blog . "The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award given in the United States, ...
Tuesday, November 08, 2005

U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO Louise Oliver With Foreign Journalists

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Read the transcript of Ambassador Oliver's videoconference of October 21, 2005. QUESTION: Ambassador, I'm Jyri Raivio, Helsingin San...

Editorial: Expand the Functions of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO

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I have sought not to insert personal opinions on this blog, but only to provide information on UNESCO. I depart from that practice on this o...
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Monday, November 07, 2005

Towards Knowledge Societies

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A PDF file with the first UNESCO World Report can be downloaded from this site. (220 pages.)
Sunday, November 06, 2005

Director of Royal Botanic Gardens, a World Heritage Site, is Resigning to Return to the United States

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Read the full AScribe release. "Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, Kew Gardens holds the world's largest collectio...
Saturday, November 05, 2005

U.S. Science in a UNESCO World Heritage Site

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"When we think of "Life in the Treetops" goats may not spring immediately to mind. But the Moroccan Argan Tree is a veritable...

"The U.N. Isn't a Threat to the Net"

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Read Kofi Annan's opinion piece in today's Washington Post . "The main objective of the World Summit on the Information Soc...
Thursday, November 03, 2005

"Students’ perceptions of science and technology"

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Read the full article in the current edition of Connect , UNESCO's International Science, Technology and Educational Newsletter. This is...

UNESCO World Report: Towards Knowledge Societies

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This is the first in a new series of UNESCO reports, to be published every two years, focusing on subjects at the heart of the Organization’...

Human Rights at the heart of UNESCO programming

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The quarterly SHS Newsletter provides information on the work of UNESCO in the field of social and human sciences. The just published issue,...

World Science Day for Peace and Development

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10 November 2005 "Every year, World Science Day for Peace and Development provides an opportunity for special attention to be paid to t...
Tuesday, November 01, 2005

UNESCO: Promoting Advancement of Scientific Knowledge

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Read the UNESCO Fact Sheet on its efforts to promote scientific knowledge. (Two pages, PDF format.) "The world is undergoing a fundame...

UNESCO at WSIS

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Go to the UNESCO website for its WSIS participation. 16-18 November 2005, Tunis, Tunisia At the Summit meeting in Tunis in November 2005, UN...

High Level Round Table: Shaping the Future through Knowledge

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Visit UNESCO's website for the Round Table. Date: 17 November 2005 Hour: 3-6 p.m. Place: Tunis, Tunisia The UNESCO High-Level Round Ta...

UNESCO Round Table: Construction of Knowledge Societies

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Go to the Round Table website. A Round Table on the Role of UNESCO in the Construction of Knowledge Societies through the UNITWIN/UNESCO Cha...
Monday, October 31, 2005

"Financial mechanisms for meeting the challenges of ICT for development"

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Below are the recommendations to be presented to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) on the financing of ICT for development....
Sunday, October 30, 2005

Media in Development: An evaluation of UNESCO's International Programme for the Development of Communication

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Read the complete evaluation report. (By Kristin Skare Orgeret and Helge Rønning; Published by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affa...