Google, UNESCO and Litcam Launched “The Literacy Project”

Read the full news release from eLearning Africa.

Google Inc. unveiled The Literacy Project in conjunction with the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and Litcam, a literacy campaign organized by Frankfurt Book Fair officials. It is a Web site dedicated to literacy, pulling together its books, video, mapping and blogging services to help teachers and educational organizations share reading resources.

The UNESCO Institute for Education in Hamburg was recently renamed and rechartered as the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning. The new name more accurately reflects the Institute's long-standing focus on adult learning as well as out-of-school and non-formal education in
the perspective of lifelong learning.

Google, UNESCO and Litcam Launched “The Literacy Project”

Read the full news release from eLearning Africa.

Google Inc. unveiled The Literacy Project in conjunction with the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and Litcam, a literacy campaign organized by Frankfurt Book Fair officials. It is a Web site dedicated to literacy, pulling together its books, video, mapping and blogging services to help teachers and educational organizations share reading resources.

The UNESCO Institute for Education in Hamburg was recently renamed and rechartered as the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning. The new name more accurately reflects the Institute's long-standing focus on adult learning as well as out-of-school and non-formal education in
the perspective of lifelong learning.

Dialogue Among Civilizations

Dialogue among Civilizations
Proceedings of the International Symposium
on Dialogue among Cultures and Civilizations
Sana'a, Yemen
10 to 11 February 2004

In 2001, the United Nations General Assembly devoted a two day session to the theme of Dialog Among Civilizations. (Click here to to to the website for that meeting.)

UNESCO, even earlier adopted Dialog Among Civilizations as a major mainstreaming issue, cross cutting all of its programs. A number of meetings have be held all over the world to promote that dialog under UNESCO sponsorship. (Click here to go to a website from which you can download the reports of many of those meetings.)

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) also established a Dialog Among Civilizations program. (Click here to go to the website for that program.)

The most recent conference in this series was titled "COMMUNICATION OF HERITAGE: A NEW VISION OF SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE". It was held in Opatija, Croatia from May 31 to June 2, 2006. (Click here for the newly published report from that meeting.)

Dialogue Among Civilizations

Dialogue among Civilizations
Proceedings of the International Symposium
on Dialogue among Cultures and Civilizations
Sana'a, Yemen
10 to 11 February 2004

In 2001, the United Nations General Assembly devoted a two day session to the theme of Dialog Among Civilizations. (Click here to to to the website for that meeting.)

UNESCO, even earlier adopted Dialog Among Civilizations as a major mainstreaming issue, cross cutting all of its programs. A number of meetings have be held all over the world to promote that dialog under UNESCO sponsorship. (Click here to go to a website from which you can download the reports of many of those meetings.)

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) also established a Dialog Among Civilizations program. (Click here to go to the website for that program.)

The most recent conference in this series was titled "COMMUNICATION OF HERITAGE: A NEW VISION OF SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE". It was held in Opatija, Croatia from May 31 to June 2, 2006. (Click here for the newly published report from that meeting.)

Corruption in Education: A global problem

Corrupt schools, corrupt universities: What can be done?
by Jacques Hallak and Muriel Poisson
2007, 354 p.
Price: €20

Rigged calls for tender, embezzlement, illegal registration fees, academic fraud... A Report from UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) launched on 6 June in Paris shows to what degree corrupt practices are seriously undermining education systems around the world and costing governments billions of dollars. More importantly, it suggests what can be done to reduce corruption in education.

Press release

Video Interviews
with Muriel Poisson and Jacques Hallak, authors of the Report

Click here to download the 321 page report in PDF format.

Corruption in Education: A global problem

Corrupt schools, corrupt universities: What can be done?
by Jacques Hallak and Muriel Poisson
2007, 354 p.
Price: €20

Rigged calls for tender, embezzlement, illegal registration fees, academic fraud... A Report from UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) launched on 6 June in Paris shows to what degree corrupt practices are seriously undermining education systems around the world and costing governments billions of dollars. More importantly, it suggests what can be done to reduce corruption in education.

Press release

Video Interviews
with Muriel Poisson and Jacques Hallak, authors of the Report

Click here to download the 321 page report in PDF format.

U.S. Children’s Charity to Raise Awareness of Child Sexual Abuse and to Raise Funds for Healing Camps

US Chapter for the international child protection agency, Innocence in Danger (IID) will host its gala dinner in New York to raise awareness for sexually abused children and create funds for healing services. IID functions on two levels: to create public sensibility through media campaigns and establish retreat centers to assist affected children in their recovery.

IID is a UNESCO initiative to bring attention to child trafficking and sexual abuse. IID now operates in more than 29 countries.