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• 20TH ICDE WORLD CONFERENCE
• ON OPEN LEARNING AND DISTANCE EDUCATION
• The Future of Learning - Learning for the Future
• Shaping the Transition
• Düsseldorf, Germany, 01 - 05 April 2001
• Bernard LOING
• General Delegate of ICDE
• At UNESCO,
• Treasurer of the Liaison Committee
• NGO/UNESCO
• Keynote Address in the Closing Session
• on Thursday, 05 April 2001

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ICDE and UNESCO

• Bernard LOING
• General Delegate of ICDE
• At UNESCO,
• Treasurer of the Liaison Committee NGO/UNESCO

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Introduction

• UNESCO an Intergovernmental organisation
• 189 member states in the year 2000
• Mandate promote collaboration among nations
  through education, science, and culture
• Regular budget 544 million for 2000-2001
• Education as major programme 30,9
• The states define objectives and actions
• NGOs as civil society help to implement
  UNESCOs objectives.

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The Liaison Committee

• Represents the 350 international NGOs in official
  relation with UNESCO
• Elected every 3 years (1998, 2001, etc.)
• 10 members (including ICDE)
• International Conference
• Joint Programme Committees
• Collective consultations
• Regional consultations
• Commissions and special events.

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Unesco policies and action in Open and Distance
Education

• Priorities in education access life-long
  learning best training at lowest cost.
• Promote endogenous capacities in ODL
• Recognition of diplomas delivered in ODL
• Co-operation with global networks in ODL
• Development of IT applied to Education.

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ICDE and the World Conference on Higher Education

• Contribution to framework of action (1998)
• Paper on follow-up (June 2000)
• Collective Consultation on Higher Education
  (November 2000), paper on  ICT Revolution or
  Solution (B.Loing)
• Leader of Working Group on Globalisation, the
  World of work, and IT Applications

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ICDE and the Global Initiative Education for
All 

• The Dakar Forum (April 2000), or Jomtien 10 years
  after
• Critical position of the NGOs
• Technology for Education in Developing countries?
  The position of ICDE
• NGO Consultation (March 2001) chaired by ICDE
  towards a plan of action to finance the Global
  Initiative, resources and mechanisms.

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Various other actions

• Working Group on Secondary Education
• Educating for a Sustainable Future
• NGO Joint Commission on ICT and Communication
• The Liaison Committee symposium on The Culture
  of Peace (November 2000)
• Preparation of the World Summit on The
  Information Society (2003)

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Conclusions

• ICDEs central position a collective work
• 2 major priorities - Development of ICT in
  Education - The digital divide
• A work of expertise updating the 1997 UNESCO
  document on ODL
• Contact the National Commissions
• http//www.unesco.org