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eLearning conference at World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
Simulacra
20-Oct-2005 » Training Press Releases » Simulacra is proud to be a partner to the official WSIS parallel event "Initiatives 2005 Colloquium" around the theme of "Standards as an enabler of the Education for All action plan".
The event is organised by The Agency of French-speaking Universities (AUF) and an international alliance of countries, which are members of the ISO/IEC Standards Committee for Information Technology for Learning, Education and Training (ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36). It is taking place under the High Patronage of His Excellence Abdou Diouf, Secretary-General of French-speaking countries, and under the Honorary Presidency of His Excellence Mr. Lazhar Bououni, Minister of Higher Education in Tunisia.
The purpose of the event is to identify how Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be used to facilitate learning and the communication of knowledge. In particular, the event aims to be the starting point for international stakeholders in these areas to collaborate in the creation of standards to enable the objectives of the WSIS Action Plan.
Simulacra's founder and strategic advisor, Patrick Towell, has been a key member of the Steering Committee and Co-President of the Programme Committee for the event, with Simulacra providing logistical support for these committees.
Reinforcing the comments of the Secretary General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Towell comments: "Learning, education and training are essential to the future wellbeing and prosperity of citizens, governments and commercial organisations throughout the world. As in other sectors, such as telephony, media - with the Internet, as the ultimate example - standards are vital to the creation of transparent and effective communities and markets."
However learning and education are not just another medium or communication - hence this event, as Towell explains: "Within the learning sectors, we are teaching future generations their culture, their heritage and their language - without the societal framework around ICTs that WSIS should provide, we risk losing our fantastically diverse identities in such a global and digital world."
More information on the event
The event will focus on the following four areas:
- The role of development of education and training standards as enablers in the construction of the shared knowledge society,
- Cultural and linguistic diversity,
- Role of standards in economic aspects of the sustainable development,
- Collaboration and the development of standards for technological innovation.
The event takes place on 14/15 November 2005 at the Kram Palexpo,Tunis,Tunisia.
More details about the event, including how to register, can be found at: http://openforum.refer.org.
About AUF
Founded in Montreal (Canada) in 1961, the university Agency of Francophonie (AUF) is a multilateral institution which supports the co-operation and solidarity between the university institutions working in French, with the French-speaking countries of Africa, the Arab World, of Southeast Asia, of Central and Eastern Europe and of the Caribbean one. It also contributes to the development of the higher education and research.
More information on AUF is available at www.auf.org.
About WSIS
The World Summit on the Information Society was established in 2001, under the auspices of the United Nations following the International Telecommunication Union Plenipotentiary Conference in Minneapolis in 1998. The purpose of WSIS is to "build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society, where everyone can create, access, utilise and share information and knowledge, enabling individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full potential in promoting their sustainable development and improving their quality of life, premised on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and respecting fully and upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights".
More details on WSIS can be found at http://www.itu.int/wsis/index.html.
The WSIS Action Plan is available at: http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1161|1160.
More details about WSIS parallel events can be found at: http://www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/events/index.html.
About ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36
SC36 is the body that leads the development of truly international standards in the application of information technology to learning, education & training.
More information is available at http://jtc1sc36.org.
About Simulacra
Double Bafta award winners for Best Learning and Factual Sites 2005.
UN World Summit Award Winner 2005 - Worldwide Winner for eLearning
Simulacra provide award-winning web-based information management solutions. They help clients to integrate, categorise, manage and publish their information in an attractive and intuitive way, so that their users can access information according to their understanding. This is achieved by ensuring that the information structure driving the site is consistent with what it means to end users, and how they navigate it.
Simulacra works with organisations at both the strategic and implementation levels to reach new audiences with relevant services. Information standards such as taxonomies or metadata schemes are used to support the description and management of information and assets for more user-focussed online offerings.
Simulacra is committed to a program of ongoing development and expansion of its product range, including advanced eLearning solutions, which puts the user at the centre of the development process and aligns this with the organisation's motivation to educate. Our eLearning services cater for content development and content management using our open source software openharmonise.
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