The famous digital divide is getting wider. A two-part documentary, The Codebreakers, aired on BBC World starting 10 May 2006, examines whether free/o...

The famous digital divide is getting wider. A two-part documentary, The Codebreakers, aired on BBC World starting 10 May 2006, examines whether free/open source software (FOSS) might be the bridge. Stories from The Codebreakers include computer and Internet access for school children in Africa, reaching the poor in Brazil, tortoise breeding programmes in the Galapagos, connecting villages in Spain, and disaster management in Sri Lanka. The documentary also includes interviews from key...

Since the mid 80's governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations have joined efforts in the fight against AIDS. However, it became evident that despite massive action to inform the public about the risks, behavioural changes were not occurring as expected. This DVD, produced whithin the joint UNESCO/UNAIDS project, "A Cultural Approach to HIV and AIDS Prevention and Care", is composed of the following two parts: - Courtship and Marriage in the Pulaar...

This video is part of a VCD produced within the framework of the Science and media project www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/resource/subject/34/Scie...

Science and media project was launched in 2006 in the Caribbean with the production of three short 10-minute films and seven one-minute spots on HIV/AIDS through a partnership between the University of the West Indies (UWI) and UNESCO. Aimed at youth, the general public and Caribbean audience, the films feature science related issues such as human physiology and behavior, environmental preservation and HIV/AIDS from a pedagogical viewpoint. The three main productions are: - Seeing Red: The...

Tibetan health-care traditions and their links to landscape and culture are central to the medicinal plants conservation programme supported in Shey P...

Tibetan health-care traditions and their links to landscape and culture are central to the medicinal plants conservation programme supported in Shey Phoksundo National Park in the alpine meadows of the Eastern Himalaya, Nepal. With the cultural perception that the people's health is linked to that of the environment, medicinal plant conservation and health care are closely inter-related in the Dolpo region. In addition, local traditional healers, or amchis, are not only responsible for...

UNESCO believes that it is important to critically examine the ways in which the poor can benefit from the new information and communication technologies (ICTs).

UNESCO's International Initiative for Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs) promotes community empowerment and addresses the digital divide by combining community broadcasting with the Internet and related technologies. The CMC programme offers a global strategy for addressing the digital divide in the poorest communities of the developing world and also among countries in transition. The CMC opens a gateway to active membership of the global knowledge society by making information and...

Cultural Boundaries and Cyber Spaces is an innovative education and training tool for individuals or groups addressing women's advancement within specific cultural boundaries. Leading women in politics, law and education from the Middle East, Africa, and elsewhere describe their unique experiences and perspectives on women's empowerment and leadership in their communities, and ways in which they use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to organize and educate.

As the only UN agency with a mandate to defend freedom of expression and press freedom, UNESCO has placed mutual understanding, and dialogue through media at the core of its mission. Indeed, UNESCO's Constitution, adopted in November 1945, states that the Organization will "collaborate in the work of advancing the mutual knowledge and understanding of all peoples, through all means of mass communication" and "promote the free flow of ideas by word and image". At this year's conference and...

Education TV spots that are the result of the cooperation between UNESCO and Cisco in education and learning. The video clips emphasize the sharing of expertise and strategies in, for example, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), knowledge-sharing and empowerment through participation.

Science and media project was launched in 2006 in the Caribbean with the production of three short 10-minute films and seven one-minute spots on HIV/AIDS through a partnership between the University of the West Indies (UWI) and UNESCO. Aimed at youth, the general public and Caribbean audience, the films feature science related issues such as human physiology and behavior, environmental preservation and HIV/AIDS from a pedagogical viewpoint. The three main productions are: - Seeing Red: The...

Using a variety of pictures, animation, audio and video the film explores different dimensions of technological innovation, community ownership, participatory content production and the power of collective action as it exists in the Community Multimedia Centres (CMC).