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UNESCO hosts meetings at the WSIS Forum 2012
The 4th edition of WSIS Forum will take place at ILO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland from 14 to 18 May 2012.
- 2013 WSIS +10 Event consultation meeting
- WSIS KC - Knowledge Communities Briefing
- C3 Access "Innovative use of ICTs for Accessible Education"
- C7 E-learning "Mobile Learning: Cellphones, tablets, digital textbooks, and what’s more?"
- C7 E-Science "ICTs driving Sciences"
- C8 Cultural and language diversity "The relationship between Local content, Internet Development and Access Prices"
- C9 Media "Freedom of Expression on Internet and Social media"
- C10 Ethical dimensions of the Information Society”Cyber and Information ethics: Fostering and enabling freedom on the Internet"
General Conference special: UNESCO’s WSIS Implementation Matrix
UNESCO's implementation Matrix aims at providing an overview of activities carried out by UNESCO in the field of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the current biennium (2010-11).
UNESCO's WSIS Matrix 2010-11
More than 600 WSIS related activities were implemented:
- 150 activities on a global scale
- 213 activities in Sub-Saharian Africa
- 48 activities in Arab States
- 143 activities in the Asia and the Pacific
- 105 activities in Latin America and Caribbean
- 6 activities in Europe and North America.
WSIS KC - Knowledge Communities
www.wsis-community.org - The WSIS KC is an online collaborative platform hosted by UNESCO. The objective is to facilitate information gathering and exchange, and to stimulate common development of ideas and projects in the area of ICTs for development.
WSIS Forum 2011
UNESCO
Media experts around the world
UNESCO organized a High Level Dialogue on Rights to Communication and six Thematic Sessions at the WSIS Forum 2011 held at the ILO Conference Centre, in Geneva, Switzerland from 16-20 May 2011.
UNESCO was also responsible for the following Action Line facilitating meetings:
UNESCO at the IGF Nairobi
At the IGF Nairobi meeting held from 27 to 28 November 2011, Mr Jānis Kārkliņš, the Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, made an opening speech.
UNESCO organized an open forum and following workshops:
UNESCO Open Forum at the IGF Nairobi
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UN Group on the Information Society (UNGIS)
UNGIS
UNESCO, together with other UN agencies, OECD and the World Bank, coordinates international ICT initiatives.
