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A World of Science (July–September 2010)

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Contents Volume 8 n°3IN FOCUS 2. A bleak outlook for biodiversity?NEWS 12 ‘IPCC for nature’ gets green light 12 Thirteen new biosphere reserves 13 A 4D system for improving conservation of Calakmul 14 50 years of ocean studiesINTERVIEW 15 Why Vineet Soni is bent on saving the guggul plantHORIZONS 17 Tracking plant diversity in a changing world 21 Mapping the oceans to save the seasIN BRIEF 24 Diary 24 New releasesDirect link A World of Science Vol. 8 n° 3 (document PDF) See also ARCHIVES for A more...

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A World of Science (April–June 2010)

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Contents Vol. 8 No 2IN FOCUS 2. Eight predictions for 21st century conservationNEWS10 Women laureates battle parasites and disease10 UNESCO comes to Haiti’s aid11 Biodiversity target will not be met in 201012 Post-2010 targets must recognize key biodiversity areas12 Afghanistan launches plan for higher education13 First karez restored in Iraq14 Iraq joins Avicenna Virtual Campus14 The Scarlet Knight arrives in SpainINTERVIEW15 David Hills on what industry can learn from natureHORIZONS17 more...

Added by John Daly on April 12, 2010

Twelve years of measuring linguistic diversity in the Internet: balance and perspectives

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Written by Daniel Pimienta, Daniel Prado and Alvaro Blanco, this publication is an update to the previous UNESCO study on this subject that was issued for the World Summit on the Information Society in 2005.FUNREDES and Union Latine have designed an original research method to measure linguistic diversity in cyberspace. The aim was to use search engines and a sample of word-concepts to measure the proportionate presence of these concepts in their various linguistic equivalences. Research, more...

Added by John Daly on April 08, 2010

A World of Science (April–June 2010)

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Added by John Daly on April 06, 2010

Information Society Policies: Annual World Report 2009

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Assistance to UNESCO Member States in the formulation of national information policy frameworks has been the main focus of UNESCO's Information for All Programme (IFAP) in 2008-2009. The IFAP Annual World Report 2009 offers an overview of major international and national policy documents and highlights the most important trends of the information society during the last year.Information Society Policies. Annual World Report 2009 was written by researchers from the Information Society Research more...

Added by John Daly on March 25, 2010

National Information Society Policy: A Template

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Developed by the Information for All Programme of UNESCO to assist UNESCO Member States in the development of national information policy and strategy frameworks

Added by John Daly on March 25, 2010

Template for national information society policies discussed at Moscow meeting

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The participants of the First Consultation Meeting of National Committees for UNESCO’s Information for All Programme (IFAP), which is currently taking place in Moscow, are discussing ways of implementing the National Information Society Policy, a template document recently developed by IFAP.The Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, adopted by the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), calls on “those governments that have not yet done so to elaborate, as appropriate, comprehensive, more...

Added by John Daly on December 13, 2009

UNESCO and ICANN sign partnership agreement to promote linguistic diversity on Internet

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A significant step was taken on 10 December 2009 towards greater linguistic diversity on the Internet when UNESCO signed an agreement with ICANN - the body that assigns online addresses to Internet users - to help put into operation the first multilingual domain names.UNESCO News Service, 10-12-2009 (Paris)

Added by John Daly on December 13, 2009

Google and UNESCO announce alliance to provide virtual visits of several World Heritage sites

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Sites of outstanding universal value inscribed on the World Heritage List – the historic centre of Prague in the Czech Republic and the old town of Cáceres in Spain, for example – can now be explored online by internet users around the world, thanks to an alliance signed by UNESCO and the international corporation Google.The agreement makes it possible for internet users to visit 18* of the 890 World Heritage properties via Google’s Street View interface. All the other sites on the List will be more...

Added by Zunia on December 07, 2009

Second Global Forum on the Power of Peace

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Main elements on the agenda are the review of an innovative web 2.0 online platform and the efforts to engage youth and students from university campuses around the world in peace building endeavor. The forum will also explore options to harnessing media and ICTs in a changing world to bringing youth to the forefront of leadership, empower civil society and make the power of peace an agent of change. The work of the Forum in Bangkok will build on the spirit of the First Global Forum in Bali in more...

Added by Zunia on October 14, 2009

Will ICTs make the traditional university obsolete?

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A session at the World Conference on Higher Education discussed cyber universities, the challenge of equal access and the growing carbon footprint of information and communication technologies. This UNESCO webpage provides a summary of that discussion, including comments from leaders from the Virtual University of the French-speaking world, Canada’s open Athabasca University, Shanghai Television University and the University of South Africa (UNISA), Institute for Open and Distance Learning.

Added by John Daly on July 10, 2009

Chairman of Executive Board publishes names of nine candidates to the post of UNESCO Director-General

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They are: Ms Ina MARČIULIONYTĖ, Mohammed BEDJAOUI, Irina Gueorguieva BOKOVA, Farouk HOSNY, Sospeter Mwijarubi MUHONGO, Alexander Vladimirovich YAKOVENKO, Ivonne JUEZ de A. BAKI, Benita FERRERO-WALDNER, and Nouréini TIDJANI-SERPOS. The article identifies the nationality of each nominee and the countries from which he/she was nominated. It also explains the selection process that will determine the next Director General.

Added by John Daly on June 27, 2009

'Freedom of information: a comparative legal survey'

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The importance of the right to information or the right to know is an increasingly constant refrain in the mouths of development practitioners, civil society, academics, the media and governments. What is this right, is it really a right and how have governments sought to give effect to it? These are some of the questions this book seeks to address, providing an accessible account of the law and practice regarding freedom of information, and an analysis of what is working and why. UNESCO, more...

Added by John Daly on June 04, 2009

'Measuring the Internet Economy - The ICT Development Index'

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This report, published in 2009 by the ITU, compares developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) in 154 countries over a five-year period from 2002 to 2007. The Index combines 11 indicators into a single measure that can be used as a benchmarking tool globally, regionally and at the country level. These are related to ICT access, use and skills, such as households with a computer, the number of Internet users and literacy levels.

Added by John Daly on March 07, 2009

Freedom of information: a comparative legal survey

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'The importance of the right to information or the right to know is an increasingly constant refrain in the mouths of development practitioners, civil society, academics, the media and governments. What is this right, is it really a right and how have governments sought to give effect to it? These are some of the questions this book seeks to address, providing an accessible account of the law and practice regarding freedom of information, and an analysis of what is working and why.'

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