Tag: UNESCO

  • Seven Steps For Countries To Regulate Generative AI In Education

    Seven Steps For Countries To Regulate Generative AI In Education

    Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools have far-reaching implications for education and research.  Yet the education sector today is largely unprepared for the ethical and pedagogical integration of these powerful and rapidly evolving technologies. A recent UNESCO global survey of over 450 schools and universities showed that less than 10% of them had policies or formal guidance on…

  • Great Barrier Reef: Australia to put in place urgent safeguarding measures requested by UNESCO

    Great Barrier Reef: Australia to put in place urgent safeguarding measures requested by UNESCO

    Paris, June, 2023 – UNESCO welcomes Australia’s decision to implement urgent new protection measures to safeguard the Great Barrier Reef recommended by UNESCO. The measures include a ban on fishing with gillnets. The Australian government formalized its commitments in a letter addressed to Audrey Azoulay, the Director General of UNESCO this week.   “The Great…

  • AI Induced Shifting Subtexts- What Is And What Isn’t Art?

    AI Induced Shifting Subtexts- What Is And What Isn’t Art?

    Let’s go back to 2016 and re-consider how the works highlighted below are more relevant today than ever when asking “What is and isn’t art?”.  The recent surge in AI and chatbot produced ‘art’ has created new challenges in recognition, interpretation and validation. Or has it? [J.Barker Content Producer for The Silo]   It became immediately…

  • Children Worldwide Call For Promises Of Universal Education

    Children Worldwide Call For Promises Of Universal Education

    New York – Through an innovative, children-led campaign delivered by the UN’s global fund for education in emergencies, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), crisis-impacted girls and boys worldwide are sharing “Postcards from the Edge” to call on world leaders and public and private sector donors to make good on promises to ensure education for all by 2030…

  • Landmarks of Ancient Yemen added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List

    Landmarks of Ancient Yemen added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List

    Paris, January, 2023 – The World Heritage Committee meeting in an extraordinary session on Thursday inscribed the Landmarks of the Ancient Kingdom of Saba, Marib (Yemen) on the List of World Heritage in Danger. The Landmarks of the Ancient Kingdom of Saba, Marib, is a serial property comprising seven archaeological sites that bear witness to…

  • Ukraine: How UNESCO Supports Odesa’s Heritage & Cultural Life

    Ukraine: How UNESCO Supports Odesa’s Heritage & Cultural Life

    Paris, 30 August 2022 – At a meeting with UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay at the Organization’s Headquarters, Oleksandr Tkachenko, Ukrainian Minister of Culture and Information, announced that his country will request the inscription of Odesa on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. For its part, the Organization will deploy new measures to protect Ukrainian cultural heritage, particularly in…

  • How UNESCO Supports Exiled Ukrainian Women Artists

    How UNESCO Supports Exiled Ukrainian Women Artists

    Paris, 9 June 2022 – UNESCO is launching a scheme to support Ukrainian women artists who have had to flee their country because of the war, in partnership with the NGO Perpetuum Mobile. It will enable them and their children to be hosted and cared for by a cultural institution in the country where they have…

  • Ukraine: UNESCO Statement Following UN General Assembly Resolution

    Ukraine: UNESCO Statement Following UN General Assembly Resolution

    Paris, France 3 March – Following the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Resolution on Aggression against Ukraine, and in light of the devastating escalation of violence, UNESCO is deeply concerned by developments in Ukraine and is working to assess damage across its spheres of competence (notably education, culture, heritage and information) and to…

  • UNESCO Puts Spotlight On Women’s Voices In Imagining World To Come

    UNESCO Puts Spotlight On Women’s Voices In Imagining World To Come

    Paris, May—UNESCO has invited leading women thinkers, artists and activists from fields ranging from climatology to international relations through physics and African studies, to voice their views on the challenges and opportunities the world will face in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first six short videos published today provide a female perspective on…

  • World Heritage Committee Adds 29 New Sites Including Alberta On UNESCO’s World Heritage List

    World Heritage Committee Adds 29 New Sites Including Alberta On UNESCO’s World Heritage List

    Baku, Azerbaijan, July—The city of Fuzhou (China) will host the next session of the World Heritage Committee in 2020. This decision concluded the work of the 43rd session of the World Heritage Committee, meeting in Baku since 30 June. During this year’s session, the World Heritage Committee inscribed a total of 29 new sites on…

  • UNESCO Seeks To Open Markets For Global South Cultural Goods

    UNESCO Seeks To Open Markets For Global South Cultural Goods

    Paris, 30 May – Experts, stakeholders and government representatives will examine ways to improve exports of cultural products from the Global South, reinforce cultural entrepreneurship and improve the status of artists during the biennial meeting of the signatories to UNESCO’s Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, at the Organization’s…

  • Ontario Beach Zoomorph Profiled In Mexico City University Of Art Publication

    Ontario Beach Zoomorph Profiled In Mexico City University Of Art Publication

    Artist Jarrod Barker, was recently invited to take part in MUCA-Roma’s Ala Afuera project. Based in the Roma district of Mexico City, MUCA is a University Museum of science and art. What made this project doubly exciting was the opportunity to show case a part of Barker’s home internationally. The curators asked for a submission…