Event Partners
Organizers
The work of the UNESCO Regional Education Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago), with headquarters in Santiago de Chile, focuses on producing and disseminating knowledge, offering guidance in public policy development, as well as technical support and advice to all Member States, fostering dialogue and cooperation between different governments, academic and research centres, civil society, private sector and international organisations.
The Education for All (EFA) Framework for Action and the Regional Education Project for Latin America and the Caribbean (PRELAC) are the two strategic benchmarks for the Regional Offices. Through their implementation, the world challenge of achieving quality education for all is met and the region’s specific priorities and challenges for meeting the established targets are identified.
Contact:
Alfredo Rojas
a.rojas@unesco.org (Spanish and English)
Phone: (56 2) 472 4600
UNESCO’s representation in Brazil was formally initiated in 1966, at a time when the Organization was taking its first steps towards decentralisation. Thus, UNESCO joined other Agencies of the United Nations System represented in Brazil as part of the technical cooperation agreement signed with the Brazilian authorities in 1964. For many decades, collaboration was close and productive; however, it was only in 1992, under the aegis of the World Declaration on Education, prepared and approved on the occasion of the Jomtien Conference (Thailand), that UNESCO came to sign an ample cooperation agreement with Brazil’s Ministry of Education. From the mid-nineties on, the Brazilian Office decisively strengthened its action throughout the country, putting its technical competence at the service of innumerable projects and initiatives within the Organization’s five thematic areas, namely: education, natural sciences, social science, culture, communication and information. The importance of these actions has resulted in the UNESCO Brasilia Office (UBO) becoming one of the most important UNESCO offices in the world.
Contacto:
Guilherme Canela Godoi
guilherme.godoi@unesco.org.br (Portuguese and English)
ticedu@unesco.org.br
tics.educacao@unesco.org.br
Phones: (55 61) 2106-3537 / 2106-3550
Ministry of Education (MEC) - Distance Learning Secretariat
The Ministry of Education, through the Secretariat of Distance Education (Seed) plays the role of a technology innovation agent in learning and teaching processes, fostering the incorporation of information and communication technologies (ICTs), as well as distance learning techniques to pedagogical-teaching methods. In addition, it promoted research and development aimed at introducing new concepts and practices in Brazilian public schools.
Contact:
acs.seed@mec.gov.br
Support
Providing quality education to the 1.4 billion students around the world is essential to the future of our society. At Microsoft, we believe that technology can expand the power of education and unlock the potential of students, educators and schools. Our commitment is to the success of each teacher and student. Microsoft partners with education communities around the world to deliver relevant solutions, services and programs that focus on improved learning outcomes for the individual.
Dell delivers innovative technology and services which customers trust and value. As a leading technology company, we offer a broad range of product categories, including mobility products, desktop PCs, software and peripherals, servers and networking, and storage. Our services include a broad range of configurable IT and business related services, including infrastructure technology, consulting and applications, and business process services.
The Brazilian Bar Association – OAB
The Brazilian Bar Association – OAB has the objective of: defending the Constitution, the legal order of the democratic rule of law, human rights and social justice; striving for appropriate law enforcement, ensuring that justice takes place rapidly and enhancing culture and legal institutions; to promote, exclusively, advocacy, protection, selection and discipline of lawyers across the Federative Republic of Brazil.
Contact:
SAS Quadra 5 - Lote 1 - F Block
Brasilia - DF: CEP 70070-939
Phone: (61) 2193-9600
oab@oab.org.br
Father Anchieta Foundation / TV Cultura
The Father Anchieta Foundation – Paulista Educational Radio and TV Centre, founded by the government of the State of São Paulo in 1967, is a private law entity with intellectual, political and administrative autonomy. Financially supported by legally established budgetary allocations and own resources acquired from the private initiative, FPA has an open signal broadcasting television channel, TV Cultura; a subscription broadcasting TV channel, TV Rá Tim Bum; two radio stations: Cultura Brasil and Cultural FM; and two multi-programme channels, Univesp TV and Multicultura.
Contact:
Mônica Franco
mmgfranco@tvcultura.com.br
The Communication Initiative / La Iniciativa de Comunicación
The Communication Initiative is the online community, social network, and knowledge sharing space developed in 1998 by a group of Partner agencies for the community of people working on major development issues. This community has a particular interest in communication and media initiatives and uses strategies such as community mobilization, participatory communication, education and public awareness to advance development. There are specific, major initiatives for Latin America (La Iniciativa de Comunicación) and Africa (Soul Beat Africa). The CI supports people in this communication and media for development community to share and learn from each other's programme experiences, strategic thinking, evaluation and research results; identify relevant support for their work through materials, training, events, awards, funding opportunities, jobs and consultancy support; and to consider, review, and debate relevant strategic and policy issues through contributing and commenting on policy blogs, voting and commenting on polls.
Contacto:
Warren Feek
Executive Director The Communiction Initiative
wfeek@comminit.com
Adelaida Trujillo
Director La Iniciativa de Comunicación
atrujillo@comminit.com