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etuktuk featured in UNESCO photo publication

Writing by admin on Friday, 3 of August , 2007 at 7:03 pm

UNESCO releases Photo Study publication on Community Access Centres

The origin of this photo-study publication lies in a simple question: “How can we best capture the exciting developments that are taking place in Community Access Centres?”

Community Access Centres take different forms and go by different names: Community Learning Centres; Community Multimedia Centres; ICT Centres; Telecentres; Resource Centres or Community Libraries. . But whatever their name, the fundamental idea is the same: to facilitate progress from “Access to Engagement”!

In ways small and large, Community Access Centres provide support for breaking the chains of illiteracy or aiding the vocational skills of people displaced by conflict. They have helped young women improve their ability to express themselves and articulate their opinions via community radio or community television. They have also provided young people with useful and marketable skills crucial to their own development. The Centres expose communities to new sources of knowledge and provide hands-on experience in the integration of new technologies such as the Internet with more traditional channels of communication.

Community Access Centres are spaces where local communities translate the vision of human development in ways that make sense to their lives. This photo publication takes you to the places where such wonderful things happen!

To download the publication click here

 

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