The media are a very powerful economic and social force. The media sector is also an accessible instrument for European citizens to better understand the societies in which they live and participate in the democratic life. Hence a higher degree of media literacy can significantly contribute to reaching the objective set for the European Union […]
European Commission’s Audiovisual and Media Policies
The European Union’s sector on Audiovisual and Media Policies directly employs over one million people. In addition to its economic importance, it also plays a key social and cultural role throughout Europe since television is the most important source of information and entertainment in European societies. To implement audiovisual and media policies, the European Union […]
Our Stories
The Our Stories™ project helps people share the stories of their lives, no matter where they live or how their stories unfold. In this project UNICEF, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), and Google have collaborated to provide resources to create and share personal stories from all over the world, starting with children in developing countries […]
UNIWIKI
UNIWiki is a communication platform that allows young people to participate on the web without a computer, laptop or internet connection. Like Wikipedia, UNIWiki is a digital holding space for information and interaction which allows multiple users to simultaneously add, remove, edit and change content to a single document. It serves as a fast way […]
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network)
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is a non-profit organization made up of over 20,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 115 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 1,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.
Eurozine
Eurozine is a network of European cultural journals, linking up 70 partner journals and just as many associated magazines and institutions from nearly all European countries. Eurozine is also a netmagazine which publishes outstanding articles from its partner journals with additional translations into major European languages.
African Education Knowledge Warehouse (AEKW)
The African Education Knowledge Warehouse (AEKW) is a pan-African education portal serving African SchoolNet participants, policymakers and school-based communities on information and communication technologies in education across Africa. SchoolNet Africa is one of Africa’s first African-led, African-based non-governmental organizations that operates across the continent in an endeavor to improve education access, quality and efficiency through […]
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Annual Confere
Held each year in a different location, the “IFLA World Library and Information Congress” convenes members and associates of the IFLA, the “global voice of the library and information profession.” As the international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users worldwide, the IFLA seeks to promote high standards of provision […]
World Information Society 2007 Report
The World Summit on the Information Society is a United Nations initiative jointly organized with the International Telecommunication Union. The WSIS main objective is to increase access to basic Information and Communication Technologies throughout the world. At the summit, world leaders declared the importance of bringing “information-poor” countries up to the standard of those with […]
MAGIC
On the 10th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – at a meeting in Oslo in November 1999 organized by the Norwegian Government and UNICEF – children, young people, media professionals and child rights experts met to discuss the development of children’s rights and their relation to the media throughout […]