(19 Sept 2025) SMU Libraries is pleased to invite you to an insightful and engaging online event in celebration of UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2025. This year, the theme is “Minds Over AI – MIL in Digital Spaces,” a topic that couldn’t be more relevant in our rapidly evolving digital world. From Friday,…
(19 Dec 2023) Eleven countries have introduced open science policies, strategies and legislative frameworks since the adoption of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science two years ago, according to the UNESCO Open Science Outlook 1: Status and Trends Around the World. This means that the the total number of countries with open science policies has…
(8 Sep 2023) As pupils in part of the world return to school after the summer break, UNESCO is calling on governments to implement appropriate regulations and teacher training, to ensure a human-centred approach to using Generative AI in education. To this end, UNESCO publishes the first-ever global Guidance on Generative AI in Education and…
(6 Jun 2023) Following the success of the first phase of the Translate a Story campaign, UNESCO and the Global Digital Library (GDL), in cooperation with the Agency for Language Development and Cultivation (Badan Bahasa) from the Ministry of Education of Indonesia, jointly organized a translation workshop from 29 May to 2 June in the…
(29 May 2023) In response to the rapid emergence of new and powerful generative AI tools, on Thursday, UNESCO held the first global meeting of Ministers of Education to explore the immediate as well as far-reaching opportunities, challenges and risks that AI applications pose to education systems. Over 40 Ministers came together to share policy…
(12 Dec 2022) The Neilson Hays Library in Bangkok has received an Award of Distinction at the Unesco Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. The jury’s statement noted that: “The project sets a welcome benchmark for the restoration of early 20th-century buildings of Western architectural design in humid tropical environments.” The Neilson Hays…
(5 Sep 2022) Sarawak State Library is awarded the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy for its program ‘’People Accessible Network for Digital Empowerment & Inclusivity (PANDei)’. Established in 2000, the Sarawak State Library is one of the players appointed by the Sarawak Government in Malaysia to enhance the competency and readiness of all communities in the State…
(26 Nov 2021) Some 193 countries attending UNESCO’s General Conference have agreed to abide by common standards for open science. The first international framework was adopted in the hope of making science more equitable and inclusive, as well as enhancing international scientific cooperation. Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General, said: ‘The Covid-19 pandemic has brought into…
(6 Oct 2021) The new Global Open Access Portal (GOAP.info) presents access to a wide array of Open Access resources worldwide, through an advanced user interface design. GOAP.info allows users to browse dynamic Open Access contents via both a text-based search and a map-enabled country search option. Building on an earlier version, the new Portal includes…
(11 May 2021) At a meeting wrapping up Tuesday, diplomats and legal and technical experts from UNESCO’S member states are trying to draw up new global guidelines under a project called Open Science. “The crisis put a spotlight on how scientific information is produced, shared, communicated,” said Ana Persic, chief of the science policy section…