Event

The UNESCO Brasilia Office, the UNESCO Regional Bureau of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean, OREALC/UNESCO Santiago, and the Department of Distance Education of the Ministry of Education Brazil have convened the International Conference "The Impact of ICT in Education” to build knowledge and advance in the definition of agendas and policies.The International Conference "The Impact of ICT in Education", in Brasilia on 27/28 April, 20101 will address these key questions:

* How can ICTs be used to accelerate the development towards reaching “education for all and throughout life”?

* How can they provide better balance between broad cover and excellence in education?

* How can they contribute to reconcile universality and local specificity of knowledge?

* How can ICTs and education prepare individuals and society in a way that they can dominate technologies that are present in all sectors of life, and how useful they can be to them?