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PLANETS needs your help to ensure that we develop the most effective
environment for experimentation in digital preservation as is possible. Such
environments, commonly known as testbeds, are frequently used in engineering
and provide a controlled space in which experiments can be conducted,
controlled, documented, validated, and rerun.

The EU co-funded PLANETS project brings together key national libraries and
national archives, as well as leading research institutes and technology
vendors, in order to deliver a sustainable framework that will enable
long-term preservation of digital content, increasing Europe's ability to
ensure long-term access to its cultural and scientific heritage. For more
information about PLANETS see http://www.planets-project.eu/

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UNESCO-SALIS e-Learning Portal on information literacy for South Asia launched
UNESCO-SALIS Information
Literacy Workshop 2006.
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19-12-2007 (New Delhi)

The Indian Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS), in collaboration with UNESCO, launched the e-Learning Portal for Awareness Raising on Information Literacy.

This project has its genesis in recommendations of a UNESCO supported Workshop on Information Literacy Competency Development for Information Professionals and Special Educators organized in November 2006 by SALIS in Chennai, India, and subsequent Information Literacy sensitization workshops held in Delhi and Nagpur in December 2006.

The Portal aims to raise awareness, sensitize and enhance information literacy competency skills of common information users as well as information professionals and educators in the South Asian sub-region. Its objectives are fully in line with UNESCO’s mandate to bridge the digital divide and UNESCO’s vision of knowledge societies.

The Portal covers a number of self-learning modules, such as:

* Information Communication Technology (ICT),
* Information Literacy,
* Lifelong Learning,
* Information Services for Disabled People,
* Freedom of Information, etc.

The information literacy competency skills promoted by the Portal derive from the existing international standards, adopted by UNESCO, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the American Library Association (ALA) and other professional societies. Indian library experts, in collaboration with lifelong learning experts, have developed the contents of the Portal modules using Moodle open source learning content management software.

e-Learning Portal homepage.
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http://www.unesco-ci.org/newsletter/lt/t_go.php?i=1101&e=Mzg4NTk=&l=-http--salisonline.org/

http://www.unesco-ci.org/newsletter/lt/t_go.php?i=1101&e=Mzg4NTk=&l=-http--autolib-india.net/salis/

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The Open Training Platform continues to expand!
The Open Training Platform logo
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17-12-2007 (Paris)

The United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP) is the seventh UN agency to join the Open Training Platform (OTP). The OTP is a UNESCO-powered hub offering free training resources on a wide range of development topics, fostering cooperation to provide free and open content for development.

At present, the OTP regroups partners from all UN agencies (FAO, ILO/ITC, ITU, UNESCO, UNITAR, UNV, WHO and UNEP), worldwide development practitioners and agencies, as well as regional and local NGOs and CBOs.

Thanks to the growing number of online members (870 to date) and partners, over 1600 free learning resources are now accessible to users, better serving the learning needs of both local and specialized communities, trainers and decision makers. The number of available OTP learning resources is constantly on the increase. By November 2007, online hits had increased by 20% (at annual figure of 44 000 visitors).

This nine-month old web portal facilitates access to non-certifying courses and training resources from over 600 different development institutions worldwide in twenty-one key domains for local capacity sustainable development. The domains covered include amongst others, agriculture, entrepreneurship, employment, media, ICT, health, HIV and AIDS, environment, life skill, community development, and gender issues.

As an ever-evolving online service that aims to continuously tackle local learning needs, the OTP team plan to develop a customization option for communities within the year to come, and will further develop its “Training-on-demand” service. It is also planned to make the OTP available to users in French and to reinforce the active participation of developing countries to bring the target audience on board.

The OTP relies on expanding commitments from big and small development stakeholders, from members, and from partners such as SPIDER and IDRC to help meet the learning needs challenge.

Please feel free to visit and use the resources on www.opentrainingplatform.org.

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