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Global Innovation Forum for Education and Development

21/10/2008 - 08:00
24/10/2008 - 17:00

Organized by: UNDESA-GAID e-Leaders Committee, Athgo International, Ministry of Economy – the Republic of Armenia

The Global Innovation Forum for Education and Development provides a platform for several hundred young people across the globe to advance their causes toward achieving the MDGs through ICT. The forum is set to encourage young people to get engaged in, and develop and propose new ICT initiatives that innovatively advance local communities in various emerging regions.

Area experts from private and public sectors and selected young participants are invited to showcase their successful ICT practices during the four interactive days. The forum will highlight new innovations in ICT and new ground-breaking business models and methods that successfully address the developmental needs in different societies.

Location(s)

Yerevan
Yerevan
Armenia
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United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development to Focus on Concerns of Developing World

Submitted by admin on Sun, 18/05/2008 - 12:30.

The United Nations Global Alliance for Information and Communications Technology and Development should chart a multi-year work programme to spread the benefits of information and communications technology to the developing world, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Sha Zukang said today at the Alliance’s third annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

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UN News: UN's information technology alliance to focus on major concerns

Submitted by admin on Sun, 18/05/2008 - 12:24.

A leading United Nations body working to spread the benefits of information technology should concentrate on the areas that most concern people around the world, the chair of that body said today.

Craig Barrett, Chair of the UN Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Development, told the third annual meeting of the Global Alliance in Kuala Lumpur that people were most interested about: getting software and hardware, connectivity, local content and ICT education.

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UNESCO: The need for local content

Submitted by admin on Tue, 14/08/2007 - 08:39.

The lack of local content is evident across all media and information channels. One needs to spend just a few minutes in front of a television or computer screen to notice the overwhelming presence of content coming from content providers in the developed countries, reflecting language, values and lifestyles which are often vastly different from those of the community "consuming" the content.

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World Summit Award and Network (WSA-net) - Overview

The development of I&C infrastructures and technologies alone does not fulfill the promise of a knowledge-based Information Society. Good quality contents and innovative applications are required to build an inclusive, people-centered and development-oriented Information Society. Education and culture, health care and science, delivery of public administration services and electronic forms of participation, business and commerce depend all in the last instance on two things: accessible and functioning technological platforms and user centered econtents and applications.

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Global e-Content Summit 2006

05/10/2006 - 15:30
07/10/2006 - 18:59

This Forum will examine ways and means to best empower creators and educators of e-Content with the skills needed to exercise their creativity in a sustainable way fostering cultural diversity and multilingual content.

Location(s)

Information Technologies Foundation
2 Arshakuniats ave
Yerevan, 375023
Armenia
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