[WSIS CS-Plenary] UNESCO and Microsoft sign cooperation agreement

[djilali benamrane]

All UN Agencies, including Agencies mandated to
mobilize resources and to feed Specialised Agencies
are promotting the Public Private Partnership. Even
the UN Chief applauds this new vision of the
development financed by the private sources and so we
can forget the unsuccess of the official development
aid which is dimunishing from year to year.
This preoccupation has been adressed concerning UTI
which is the best support of the private donors... The
UN staff in general and UTI in particular are so proud
with the PPP ideology. Some dreamers thought that
UNESCO, regarding its particular educationnal and
cultural mandate and progress made by last leaders of
this institution, will be one of the last to follow
the dominant ultraliberalism, it seems that it is not
the case... we have to take it into account and to
deal with in the future. Let's adress this issu in the
world good governance... it is so aisy to cry against
the bad governance in poor country to explain the
poverty, it is time to start analysing the
insufficiency of the world governance which is worst
than any national bad governance.

--- Martin Olivera <martin_olivera at yahoo.com.ar>
wrote:

> Bad news for world education
> 
> if UNESCO trusts in a monopoly, builded upon
> exclusive appropiation of
> software knowledge, I do not think we could expect
> many more on
> inclusive real education from there...
> 
> 
> El sáb, 06-11-2004 a las 00:39, Rik Panganiban
> escribió:
> > PressConference with UNESCO Director-General and
> Microsoft Chairman
> > BillGates
> > 04-11-2004 (UNESCO)
> > 
> > UNESCO Director-General KoïchiroMatsuura and
> Microsoft Chairman and
> > Chief Software Architect BillGates will give a
> press conference at
> > UNESCO Headquarters in Paris,France on November 17
> (Room II, at 11.30
> > a.m.) following the signingof a Cooperation
> Agreement.
> > 
> > Mr Matsuura has qualified theagreement as “an
> opportunity for UNESCO
> > to put into practice theinternational strategic
> partnership advocated
> > by the United Nations tobridge the digital
> divide.” 
> > 
> > The agreement defines eight areasin which UNESCO
> and Microsoft will
> > work together, exchangingexperience, know-how and
> developing projects:
> > 
> > Educationand learning;
> > 
> > Communityaccess and development;
> > 
> > Culturaland linguistic diversity and preservation;
> > 
> > Digitalinclusion and capacity;
> > 
> > Exchangeand promotion of best practices on the use
> of ICT for
> > socio-economicdevelopment;
> > 
> > Fosteringweb-based communities of practice
> including content
> > development,knowledge sharing and empowerment
> through participation;
> > 
> > Facilitatingexchange of information and of
> software applications;
> > 
> > Sharingexpertise and strategies.
> > 
> > 
> > The agreement with Microsoft is part of UNESCO’s
> cooperation with
> > agrowing coalition of private sector stakeholders,
> such as
> > Intel,l’Oréal, DaimlerChrysler and Hewlett
> Packard. 
> > Journalists wishing to attend thepress conference
> must request
> > accreditation from 
> > 
> > (Souce: UNESCO Media AdvisoryNo.2004-75)
> > 
> >
>
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17459&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
> > 
> > 
> >
>
______________________________________________________________________
> > 
> > 
> > ===============================================
> > RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator
> > 
> > Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship 
> > with the United Nations (CONGO) 
> > web: http://www.ngocongo.org
> > email: rik.panganiban at ngocongo.org
> > mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524 
> -- 
> Martín Olivera
> ----------------------------
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