From muguet at ensta.fr Tue Jun 3 10:47:55 2008 From: muguet at ensta.fr (Dr. Francis MUGUET) Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:47:55 +0200 Subject: [WSIS Edu] [unesco-oer] Leadership Award In-Reply-To: <72B0FD83396A0D4CA212C431BC84092A0185430A@MAILSERVER-01.hq.int.unesco.org> References: <72B0FD83396A0D4CA212C431BC84092A0185430A@MAILSERVER-01.hq.int.unesco.org> Message-ID: <4845134B.2020004@ensta.fr> Dear Susan, the UNESCO team, the OER community. 1) this is a great encouragement to the whole OER community. that participated with various degrees of involvement 2) politically, it is an excellent asset to defend OER activities at UNESCO, across all UNESCO sectors, and reinforce the whole UNESCO institution,, to expand and to continue this effort, and to get more resources for this purpose. 3) this leadership award should be accounted in the WSIS stocktaking, and this award should be mentioned in the report of the WSIS e-learning action whose facilitation meeting was held recently in Geneva. 4) lastly, with a more personnal touch, many thanks to Susan, whose unending enthusiasm has been the catalyst of this specific UNESCO effort Triple Cheers Francis > Dear Colleagues, > > Everyone should all stand up and take a bow! The UNESCO OER Community > received the 2008 MANeLA Leadership Award. It was presented at > eLearning Africa last week by Moustapha Diack, Director of MERLOT > Africa Network (MAN), and Gerry Hanley, Executive Director of MERLOT. > And Katy was present at the award session, along with several members > of the Community, to accept it on behalf of all of us. The Leadership > Award recognizes the Community's "significant contribution to the > global understanding of the issues and innovations surrounding OER and > the OER movement". > > The Merlot Africa Network (**MAN) established **a > "**MAN****-**//eLearning Africa//** exemplary practice Award" to**** > **recognize exemplary OER (learning resources) and Communities of > Practice. MAN made use of the peer review protocol already established > by MERLOT for selecting best practices, and modified the protocol to > include criteria of OER internationalization such as multi-language > support and accessibility. Our thanks to MAN for this honour. > > The award is lovely recognition of the energy and commitment of our > Community to sharing information and expertise with each other in > order to advance the OER movement worldwide. > > > > Bravo ! > > > > Susan > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Francis F. Ph.D MUGUET KNIS/ENSTA P?le de D?veloppement pour l'Information Scientifique "R?seaux de la Connaissance et Soci?t? de l'Information" Scientific Information Development Laboratory "Knowledge Networks & Information Society" (KNIS) ENSTA/KNIS http://knis.org 32 Blvd Victor 75739 PARIS cedex FRANCE Phone: (33)1 45 52 60 19 Fax: (33)1 45 52 52 82 muguet at ensta.fr http://www.ensta.fr/~muguet FP7 Digital World Forum on Accessible and Inclusive ICT PC4D : http://www.pc4d.org MDPI Foundation Open Access Journals http://www.mdpi.org http://www.mdpi.net muguet at mdpi.org muguet at mdpi.net World Summit On the Information Society (WSIS) Civil Society Working Groups Scientific Information : http://www.wsis-si.org chair Patents & Copyrights : http://www.wsis-pct.org co-chair Financing Mechanismns : http://www.wsis-finance.org web Info. Net. Govermance : http://www.wsis-gov.org web NET4D : http://www.net4D.org UNMSP : http://www.unmsp.org WTIS : http://www.wtis.org REUSSI : http://www.reussi.org ------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/pipermail/edu/attachments/20080603/02a22176/attachment.html