The Toolkit provides an extensive set of free person-to-person (P2P) communication tools (audio and video conference, scientific text chat, whiteboard, collaborative authorship, portal and mailing list management, etc.), and also basic advice on person-to-equipment (P2E) tools.
It was developed for UNESCO by a team of specialists working with the Institute for Informatics of the Technical University of Freiberg (Technical Coordinator, Germany), the COPINE Centre of the Obafemi Awolowo Univers more...
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Despite a general lack of public awareness about mathematics, there is in this country a feeling that we are very good at mathematics and there is a certain pride in its past achievements. We have no doubt major past contributions to mathematics to our credit. The romantic story of Srinivasa Ramanujan no doubt contributes (very justifiably) to this belief. But there are other dubious claims on behalf of Vedic mathematics which are also taken quite seriously and contribute to this confidence in o more...
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A guide to the mindset needed to perform competent knowledge work.
The United Nations Public Administration Network (UNPAN) has recently adopted the document titled How to Think Like a Knowledge Worker, and placed it in their reference library. The UNPAN logo appears on the front cover, and the document has been made available online for free downloading.
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The author argues that Opportunity New York City, the new cash transfer programme, overlooks supply-side issues and quality of education. The programme’s undue focus is on demand-driven and cash-based incentives.
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The Open Training Platform (OTP) is a UNESCO-powered hub providing free and open learning for development. It is a Flagship Partnership Initiative of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID).
At present, OTP regroups partners from all UN agencies (FAO, ILO/ITC, ITU, UNESCO, UNITAR, UNU, UNV, WHO and UNEP), worldwide development practitioners and agencies, as well as regional and local NGOs and CBOs.
This 15-month old web portal keeps on growing: it has been visited more...
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Last June, 1600 young students from 100 schools of Medellin gathered to celebrate the first Informatics Clubs Meeting. It was the opportunity to share their experience and tell the others about what they did in the Informatics Club. They have learned many ICT skills there.
The program is designed to give new opportunities to the low income students, and provide a better educative offer to them. The program was such a big success that for the second semester of 2008, another 100 schools will more...
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The new e-learning course 'Food Security Concepts and Frameworks' introduces the concepts and tools used in food security analysis. It also provides guidelines on using conceptual frameworks for analysing food security. Resources for trainers are also available.
The course is part of a series of food security e-learning courses developed by the EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme. All courses are cost-free and open to all interested learners.
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