VOICES
RISING
YEAR IV - Nº169
February 17, 2006
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WSF 2006 KARACHI WILL TAKE PLACE FROM MARCH 24TH TO 29TH, 2006
2.-
SAVING ADULT LEARNING – CONFERENCE FROM NIACE
3.- LEARNING TO GET BACK TO WORK – NIACE CONFERENCE ON WELFARE REFORM
4.-
KNOW HOW CONFERENCE
1.- WSF
2006 KARACHI WILL TAKE PLACE FROM MARCH 24TH TO 29TH, 2006
A new date has been defined for the polycentric WSF 2006 Karachi (Pakistan):
it will take place from March 24th to 29th, 2006. All registrations for the
event have been postponed to February 15th. Soon, press registration will
also open. Below, you’ll find links for each type of registration. All forms
are in English.
Activities:
http://www.wsf2006karachi.org/howtoreg.html
Organizations and delegates:
http://www.wsf2006karachi.org/registration/organizations.aspx
Individual participants:
http://www.wsf2006karachi.org/registration/individual.aspx
Volunteers:
http://www.wsf2006karachi.org/registration/volunteer.aspx
See also the event’s list of registered
activities:
http://www.wsf2006karachi.org/registeredevents.html
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NUMBERS OF
AMERICAS POLYCENTRIC WSF 2006 (CARACAS)
Approximately 80 thousand people registered in 2 thousand activities
participated in the Americas World Social Forum 2006. Here you will also
find more WSF numbers.
Individual participants: 53,000
Delegates (linked to organizations): 19,000
Organizations: 2,500
Volunteers: 3,000
Journalists: 4,900
Activities: around 2,000
Activities by axle:
Axle 1- Power, politics and struggles for social emancipation : 493
Axle 2 - Imperial strategies and peoples’ resistance : 314
Axle 3 - Resources for and rights to life: alternatives to the predatory
model of civilization : 272
Axle 4 - Diversities, identities and worldviews in movement : 132
Axle 5 - Work, exploitation and reproduction of life : 183
Axle 6 - Communication, culture and education: alternative and democratizing
dynamics : 389
Proposed activities by countries:
Brazil: 450
Venezuela: 400
Colombia: 150
United States: 115
Argentina: 120
Cuba: 65
Equador: 60
Canada: 40
France: 30
Spain: 25
Chile: 25
Cultural activities: 200
Delegations with more number of participants:
Venezuela, Colombia and Brasil.
2.- SAVING
ADULT LEARNING – CONFERENCE FROM NIACE
National
Institute of Adult Continuing Education
www.niace.org.uk
Press
Release
16th February 2006
PR08/06
It has
been estimated that there will be one million less adult learners in the
next three years. The threat to the infrastructure of adult education may
result in it being permanently damaged. The challenging times ahead will be
discussed at a conference - from the National Institute of Adult Continuing
Education (NIACE) - in London next week.
The
Saving Adult Learning Conference - to be held at the Abbey Community
Centre in London on Tuesday 21st February - will examine the role
of colleges, the effects of current funding priorities and the key
recommendations of the NIACE-sponsored Committee of Enquiry into Adult
Learning in Colleges.
Colin
Flint, NIACE Director of Further Education, said, “Sir Andrew Foster’s
review of the future role of further education - Realising the Potential
- gives strong endorsement to the skills agenda. However it has little to
say about the needs of adult learners, other than those in the targeted
groups - those interested in basic skills and a first Level 2 qualification
- or about the demographic changes which will increasingly shape all our
futures. We are now in the lean years, as far as most adult learners are
concerned.”
He
continued, “This conference will allow major figures in adult learning to
discuss the Government’s current strategy, whether we need a more inclusive
approach to lifelong learning and perhaps most importantly - what our
response should be to the current threat.”
Speakers
at the Conference will include, Susan Pember OBE, Director – FE and the
Learning and Skills Performance Group at the Department for Education and
Skills; Chris Hughes CBE, Former Chief Executive of the Learning and Skills
Development Agency and Chairman of the Committee of Enquiry; Denis McEnhill,
Director of Inspection, Adult Learning Inspectorate; Martin Tolhurst,
Principal and Chief Executive at Newham College, Christina Conroy, Principal
and Chief Executive at Richmond Adult Community College and Alan Tuckett,
Director of NIACE.
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For further
information please contact:
Ed Melia, NIACE Press Officer, on 0116 204 4248 or 07795 358 870.
3.-
LEARNING TO GET BACK TO WORK – NIACE CONFERENCE ON WELFARE REFORM
National
Institute of Adult Continuing Education –
www.niace.org.uk
Press Release
14th February 2006
PR06/06
A central
goal of the Department for Work and Pensions is to raise the employment rate
and to help people move from welfare into paid employment. People receiving
Incapacity Benefits are a prime focus of the Green Paper on Welfare Reform
which seeks to change a system that too often has incentivised claimants to
remove themselves permanently from the workforce. A conference from the
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education in London on Thursday will
examine the significant challenge ahead.
The Welfare Reform: Learning to get back to work will hear about
approaches currently being used across the country. Rt Hon Margaret Hodge
MP, Minister of State at the Department of Work and Pensions will make the
keynote address. The Conference will also include contributions from the
Disability Rights Commission, the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion,
MC Consultancy, the Centre for Research into the Older Workforce and
Jobcentre Plus.
Christine
Nightingale, NIACE Development Officer for Inclusive Learning, said, “NIACE
believes that there is an important role for education providers in
supporting individuals - through learning - into employment. We are keen to
remind the government that all types of learning can have a significant
beneficial impact on health, well-being and self esteem which are directly
related to gaining and retaining employment.”
She continued, “There will be enormous benefits for many individuals on the
targeted benefits when they take-up wider learning opportunities before they
are ready to enter employment or employment training. NIACE has shown
through our work on the research projects - Discovering Potential,
Prescribing Learning and in particular Making the Jump - that
appropriate support, mentoring and learning opportunities can ensure that
people with mental health difficulties, disabilities and learning
difficulties make the sustainable transition needed to secure employment.”
Ends
For further
information please contact:
Ed Melia,
NIACE Press Officer, on 0116 204 4248 or 07795 358 870.
Notes to Editors
1.
The
Welfare Reform: Learning to get back to work Conference will be held at
the Abbey Community Centre, 24 Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BU on
Thursday 16th February 2006. Journalists are invited to attend,
more details from Ed Melia, NIACE Press Officer on 0116 204 4248 or 07795
358 870 or
ed.melia@niace.org.uk
4.-
KNOW HOW CONFERENCE
AUGUST 21-26, 2006, MEXICO CITY
IWTC WOMEN'S
GLOBALNET #295
Activities and Initiatives of Women Worldwide
February 11, 2006
iwtc
iwtc@iwtc.org
"Weaving
the Information Society: a Gender and Multicultural Perspective"
The Know
How Conference is held every four years. In 2006 it will be hosted by
Programa Universitario de Estudios de Genero (PUEG), Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (UNAM), in cooperation with the Know How Secretariat and
the Know How Community. The Know How Community includes librarians,
journalists, IT experts, researchers, indigenous
and
rural women's information workers, publishers and information activists
representing excluded communities of women from all parts of the world.
The Mission
of Know How Conference 2006 is to advance gender justice and respect for
every nations cultural diversity within the information society, and promote
access to information and communication as a fundamental women's and human
right.
Know How
2006 has the following objectives: 1) To establish strategies that will
promote the use of women's information to improve women's lives; 2) To
develop a strategic plan aimed at narrowing the information/digital gap for
women. 3) To share strategies that address
the
accessibility and availability of information for indigenous, excluded and
rural women. 4) To found a Latin American Network of Information Centers and
Libraries on Women's and Gender Studies.
CALL FOR
PAPERS:
The
International Program Committee calls for inspiring, provocative and
creative papers for the conference.
THEMES:
1.
Globalization, culture, information and gender: a) Library, culture and
women; b) Writers, researchers and publishers: packaging knowledge to
address the needs of women; c) Storytellers and web-makers: the changing
nature of creating and disseminating information; d) Culturally and socially
disadvantaged groups in the information society.
2. Media,
gender and communication; a) The role of media in making women's information
visible; b) Experiences related to the use of media by women; c) Women's
access to communication in disaster situations.
3. The
digital gap, gender and development: a) Review, criticise and give
recommendations in relation to WSIS; b) Mapping the digital gap in different
regions of the world.
4.
Indigenous and rural women, ICTs and the information society: a) Analysis
and diagnosis of the conditions faced by indigenous women and the use of
ICTs; b) Rural and indigenous communities and the information society; c)
Work experiences within indigenous and rural women's organizations to access
information.
5.
Development of policies for libraries and library professionals: a)
Networking for professional development; b) Developing digital libraries; c)
Tools to promote access to and enable exchange of information; d) Developing
a regional thesaurus for Latin America
6.
Strategies and alternatives for financing gender and women's information
initiatives; a) Strategies for the formulation of projects and their
funding; b) Successful experiences with fund-raising; c) Management and
tracking of projects; d) Alternative funding for libraries and information
centers.
7. Policies
for the development of the structure and legal status of the Know How
Community; a) Know How and its future; b) Regional networks within the Know
How Community
GUIDELINES
FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Papers and
presentations should be unpublished, original works, no longer than 15
minutes when read, and be on one of the proposed themes or sub-themes.
Papers
should include the following elements: 1) Name of the author: 2) Name of the
institution or organization: 3) 300 word abstract. If sent as an email
attachment, presenters should use 11 point Arial font, and txt, rtf or doc
formats. Submission can also be via certified mail or fax.
Papers can
be submitted in Spanish, English or French.
Deadline
for submissions: March 1st 2006
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