UNESCO’s Information for All Programme (IFAP) wishes to encourage communities using information for development to share their success stories. We are therefore inviting organizations to submit their success stories to our website where others can learn from them and either replicate or adapt them to their own local situations.
Our aim is to promote good practices in using information for development in all parts of the world. The stories collected in this open platform will provide practical examples that we believe will inspire others and raise the visibility of the critically important role that information plays in development.
We have decided to focus on short stories that describe how communities have benefitted from the use of information. This of course means that communities must have access to information first, but with the rapid deployment of information and communication technologies in most countries of the world, including broadcast technologies, we believe that more attention now needs to be paid to content issues (as opposed to the delivery technologies themselves). The specific goal in sharing success stories is to identify ways that people in local communities are using information to address issues that affect them directly.
All UNESCO’s Member States, NGOs and professional groups are encouraged to share their stories.
Project funding
By way of an incentive, the Bureau of IFAP has agreed to provide project funding support of US$5,000 for up to five of the most innovative success stories, one in each UNESCO region (Africa, Arab States, Europe and North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific). The purpose of this support is to help expand the reach of the most successful initiatives to other communities.
Submission
Submissions are accepted at any time, but to be considered for the project funding offered by the IFAP Council, stories must be submitted no later than 31 March 2008.
Visit: http://www.unesco-ci.org/cgi-bin/ifapstories/page.cgi?g=;d=1
