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Dr. Hoda Baraka wins the 2008 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education |
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11/11/2008
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The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has named the laureates of the 2008 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education. Dr. Hoda Baraka, of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt, was chosen to receive the Prize for her leadership in the implementation of several national ICT projects in education.
These include the ICT-In-Education Programme: Toward Ubiquitous Reachability to All Learners, an initiative consisting of an array of exemplary programmes designed to provide digital opportunities to Egypt’s citizens; and the Egyptian Education Initiative, which covers 2,000 schools, 17 public universities and 1,000 information technology clubs. The initiative has provided training to over 64,000 teachers and trains a further 45,000 teachers and administrators in digital literacy. The national projects aim to promote the use of ICTs to enhance the quality of education, to fight illiteracy, and to provide quality and equitable education to remote areas, while addressing the needs of gender education.
Selection of winners was based on the recommendation of an international jury whose meeting this year was held in Bahrain for the first time. The Director-General of UNESCO will present the Prize to each of the two laureates in a ceremony at the Organization’s Headquarters on 14 January 2009. The laureates were chosen from among 67 projects from 47* Member States or observers. The Prize was created in 2005 and is placed under the patronage of HM King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
For further information please refer to:
UNESCO Links:
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=43944&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
http://unescoeducation.blogspot.com/2008/11/awarding-icts-in-education.html
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