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UNESCO releases photo study on community access centres
08-08-2007 (New Delhi). "From access to engagement: community access centres" is the title of a photo publication prepared by UNESCO that captures the exciting developments that are taking place in community access centres. See press release

Antiqua and Barbuda Adopt Automated Jamaican Customs Program
20-07-07 (Washington, DC)
July 20th, 2007 marked the signing of a tri-partite cooperation agreement between the Organization of American States (OAS) and the governments of Jamaica and Antigua & Barbuda, to implement Jamaica's US$2 million Customs Automated Services (CASE) solution in Antigua & Barbuda. See press release

School community radio goes on air 06-07-2007 (Kingston) The Bequia High School Community Multimedia Centre (CMC) went on air on 3 July in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The school radio has been developed to enhance the integration of information literacy in education in the Caribbean through a partnership among the Bequia High School, UNESCO and the St. Vincent and the Grenadines National Commission for UNESCO. See press release

CARIMAC and UNESCO to offer online media courses
28-06-2007 (Kingston)
CARIMAC will for the first time offer three of its courses online through a partnership with UNESCO and the University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre (UWIDEC). The courses to be offered are Community Media, Online Journalism and Information/Media Literacy. The ones in Community Media and Online Journalism will begin in September 2007. See press release

Youth Portal for Latin America and the Caribbean
05-06-07 (Kingston)
June 5th, 2007 was the launching date for the UNESCO and CELAJU Youth Portal for Latin America and the Caribbean (English version) to integrate the 22 countries and territories of the Caribbean region and globalize this tool for youth communication. See press release

Haiti benefits from training under CUPIDE
02-05-2007 (Kingston)
Faculty, administrative staff and students at University Quisqueya (UniQ), located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, are benefiting from training in the use of the open source learning management system (LMS), Moodle, for distance education. The training is being provided through the UNESCO/UWI Caribbean Universities Project for Integrated Distance Education (CUPIDE). See press release