WSIS Knowledge Communities: All site communities

Crowdsourcing WorldMap of UNESCO’s points of interest

davidestorti — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:03:51 -0400

Creating a free and open world map of UNESCO’s Points of Interests through UNESCO’s Member States citizen’s participation

This open community supports a project which aims to:

1) help “UNESCO’s citizens” prepare an openly licensed data infrastructure which would strengthen UNESCO’s global programme implementation and UNESCO’s and UN’s response to Post Disaster and Post Conflict situations;

2) harness the potential benefits of mapping in different UNESCO’s domains, through adequate capacity building (mapping, ICTs), targeting especially adolescent girls and boys from developing countries, through a bottom-up participatory, community approach (crowd-sourcing).

OER Glue

Abel Caine — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:26:48 -0400

Simple - Great OER content is out there. Gather that content, stitch it together, and engage learners w/o reinventing the wheel.
Skretchy - Seamlessly integrate content with dozens of popular websites, apps, and social media services.
Sticky - Make ANY web content engaging, interactive and shareable using the same tools your learners use every day.

Dev community

Igor Nuk — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:39:44 -0500

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Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning

Dr Nellie Deutsch — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:01:42 -0500

Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL) is an educational network that offers free or low cost online and face-to-face professional development on how to integrate technology for active lifelong learners (IT4ALL) via blended (BL) and blended online learning (BOL) courses, workshops, communities of learning, international collaborative projects, conferences (facw-to-face/online) and live online events through WizIQ virtual class. The workshops at IT4ALL promote lifelong, active collaborative learning. This means that participants engage in collaborative social learning by providing ongoing feedback to the other members in the discussion forms.

IT4ALL embraces a life long learning methodology where participants are encouraged to learn, reflelct, share, and collaborate. The facilitators guide and facilitate your learning journey. Please note that the Moodle online courses are not limited to time or place. You can access the content, interact with the other members and the instructor/s, and work on the assignments at anytime and anywhere. The live virtual classes via WizIQ are time dependent but you can view the recordings at your own time.

OER University

Wayne Mackintosh — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:52:14 -0500

The OER university is an international collaboration facilitated by the OER Foundation, which aims to provide free learning to all learners worldwide using OER with pathways to gain credible qualifications from recognised education institutions around the world. It is rooted in the community service and outreach mission of tertiary education providers to develope a parallel learning universe to augment and add value to traditional delivery systems in post-secondary education. This community group will be used as the main discussion vehicle for planning the development of the logic model for the OER University. All planning documentation will be developed on the OER university pages hosted on WikiEducator.

Open Access

Sanjaya Mishra — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:03:34 -0500

To discuss issues surrounding Open Access, free access to and dissemination of scholarly and scientific information.

The Public Post

Mamun — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:21:01 -0400

Blog in Bangla, new media for citizen journalism which envisages in serving innovations and refers to share news, ideas that meet social needs of all kinds from working conditions, education, health, women, environment, marketing and agriculture to community development and that extend and strengthen civil society through new media in Bangladesh.

Academic Group on Television

Venus — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:22:05 -0400

The Academic Group on Television is an offspring of the UBW supported Network of Young TV Producers project. The project aims to strengthen media professional capacities, increase the quality and quantity of media content on specific issues such as HIV and AIDS. In 2009, a number of academic institutions expressed an interest in being associated to the project for research and knowledge exchange purposes between faculty members, graduate students and UNESCO staff. This workspace has been created to facilitate the Group’s work and to launch collaborative activities that can strengthen television programming and communication for development in developing countries.

Indigenous communication and dialogue of knowledges

Maurizio Ali — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:00:15 -0400

This group aim to discuss about a "postmodern" topic: in our multiple-cultures world, there is a space to integrate the traditional forms of knowledge (such as the indigenous, amerindian, native and aboriginal people)?

And which is the role of the international community and the civil society in this fight to give a voice to all the "silenced" minorities of the world?

Some topic to discuss:

ethnic media, occidental ecology and indigenous "ecosophy", communication and gender in native societies, ICT in indigenous area, formal education and indigenous cultures, information and cosmovision...

Quality Excellence in Education

Dr V S Jayakumar — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:45:35 -0500

Quality of education in developing countries is facing real challenges.Motivating institutions towards quality excellence is an urgent need of the hour.