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Emma Okonji Information and Communications Technology (ICT) stakeholders in West Africa have agreed to embrace the universality of the internet with the aim of deepening internet penetration across the region and ensuring safe internet. The agreement was reached recently during the joint organised forum of The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, (UNESCO) and the African ICT Foundation, on how to mainstream Internet Universality and the Rights, Openness, Access and Multi-stakeholder (ROAM) approach principles. The session, which was held on the occasion of the Wes...

Emma Okonji The African ICT Foundation is partnering United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)to host a stakeholders’ engagement for the advancement of evidence-based policy making of Internet governance The virtual even, which holds next week,is the first of the Foundation’s partnership with global organizations across to the world to deepen internet penetration in Africa. The event which is jointly organised by UNESCO Headquarters and the African ICT Foundation, seeks to engage in an extensive partnership with the West African Internet Governance Forum co...

virtual participants from 150+ countries The Windhoek+30 Declaration takes forward the spirit of the original 1991 Windhoek Declaration, but makes reference to nowadays persistent and new challenges to media freedom such as risk of media extinction amid a “severe economic crisis” and disruption of traditional media business models; “increasing proliferation, amplification and promotion of […] disinformation and hate speech;” as well as “enduring and new threats to the safety of journalists and the free exercise of journalism, including killings, harassment of women, offli...

Share Mr Cable Green, Director of Open Education, Creative Commons stated that the OER Recommendation has the potential to be an important instrument for supporting Member States in achieving SDG4 and universal access to knowledge. The Webinar also highlighted the development of OER-based teacher training materials in Egypt and Spain. The important contribution of these initiatives to support the continuation of learning in the context of the Covid-19 educational challenges was underscored in the presentations. The Creation de Recursos Educativos Abiertos (CREA) project in Spain, presented by...