UNESCO
is launching the call for nominations for the 2018 edition of the
UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information
and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education. Funded by the Kingdom
of Bahrain and established in 2005, this year’s Prize will recognize
projects and programmes that leverage innovative technologies to ensure
education for excluded vulnerable groups.
For
the past years, the Prize has been promoting the use of new
technologies to expand educational opportunities and increase access to
quality education for vulnerable groups impeded by cultural and economic
barriers, personal disabilities, gender inequalities, and/or
crisis-affected situations. Indeed, ICT have a great potential to enable
cost-efficient solutions to address these barriers, so that everyone
can fully enjoy their right to education.
This
year the Prize will highlight projects that use integrated solutions
that blend commonly used technology with frontier ICT applications, such
as breakthrough technology to overcome infrastructure barriers;
solutions to reduce the cost of access; online learning innovations;
intelligent learning management systems; machine translation; big data;
and imagery technology.
Two
awards will be granted, and each recipient will receive a monetary
award of US$ 25,000 during the Award Ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters in
Paris.
Individuals, institutions and non-governmental organizations are invited to approach the National Commissions for UNESCO of their countries or NGOs in official partnerships with UNESCO and complete the online submission form.
Governments
of UNESCO Member States and NGOs maintaining official partnerships with
UNESCO are encouraged to select the best projects and submit up to
three nominations. A self-nomination cannot be considered.
