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Safety of Women Journalists

Research project on good practices in tackling online violence of women journalists

African stakeholders called for the scale up of the Internet Universality assessment at African IGF 2022

On 19 July 2022 UNESCO convened a hybrid session entitled Scale up the Internet Universality ROAMX indicators assessment in Africa for inclusive and humanistic digital transformation at the African Internet Governance Forum 2022 AfIGF 2022 held in Lilongwe Malawi

Preparing the groundwork for a network of geoparks in Africa

The Republic of Congo came a step closer towards setting up a geopark between 13 and 18 June when it was one of 14 African countries which sent delegates to a training course on geological heritage in the departments of PointeNoire and Kouilou The 25 young geologists left the course vowing to inventory the geological heritage in their respective countries

Supporting Sustainable Rural Regeneration

Cultural and natural heritage in all its manifestations are pillars of the identity cohesion and wellbeing of communities The transformative power of cultural and natural heritage is increasingly recognized as a key enabler for sustainable development particularly in rural areas facing chronic economic social and environmental challenges UNESCO organized a conference on Sustainable Rural Regeneration in June 2022 to foster knowledge exchange and reflections on the future of rural development in Europe and beyond

EuroDIG 2022 - Assessing Internet Universality ROAM-X indicators to advance digital transformation in Europe

Trieste - June 20, 2022

Central African ministers and experts discuss ROAM-X indicators at orientation meeting

On 31 May 2022 UNESCOs Regional Office for Central Africa organized an online information meeting for key stakeholders in the Central African subregion to present the UNESCO Internet Universality ROAMX Indicators This meeting highlighted the pertinence of assessing the digital ecosystem in Central African countries and prepared the stakeholders to conduct the ROAMX assessment

Orientation meeting on UNESCO's Internet Universality Indicators in Central Africa

Stockholm+50: taking stock of the first international UN conference on the environment

Internet Universality Indicators

Sustainable Rural Regeneration Conference

Cultural and natural heritage in all its manifestations are pillars of the identity cohesion and wellbeing of communities The transformative power of cultural and natural heritage is increasingly recognized as a key enabler for sustainable development particularly in rural areas facing chronic economic social and environmental challenges The Conference on Sustainable Rural Regeneration taking place at UNESCO Headquarters on 910 June 2022 aims to foster knowledge exchange and reflections on the future of rural development in Europe and beyond Organized by UNESCO and partners of the RURITAGE project it will bring together practitioners and international experts on rural development local communities implementing heritageled actions as well as representatives of the European Commission and of EU funded projects

UNESCO advocates Internet Universality for meaningful access at WSIS Forum 2022

On 26 April 2022 UNESCO convened an online session on Internet Universality ROAMX Indicators during the World Summit on the Information Society WSIS Forum 2022 Entitled Advancing Internet Universality to support sustainable development digital collaboration and the WSIS20 review the session saw the participants to present key outcomes of ROAMX national assessments

Consultative Meeting

Advancing Internet Universality to support sustainable development, digital collaboration and the WSIS+20 review

UNESCO designates 8 new Global Geoparks

UNESCOs Executive Board has approved the designation of 8 new UNESCO Global Geoparks bringing the number of sites participating in the Global Geoparks Network to 177 in 46 countries Two new countries Luxembourg and Sweden this year join the Global Network with the designation of their first geoparks