DIGITAL ENCYCLOPEDIA ON THE UNITED NATIONS
/ PERSPECTIVES & FUTURE PRIORITIES
Training the new generations to world challenges
Worldwide consultation
The Digital Encyclopedia on the United Nations has set the goal of a wide diffusion, and thus, worldwide. In fact, the digital and multilingual exploitation of this project will allow the access to more than 250 millions of Russian locutors, 400 millions of Hispanics, 265 millions of French locutors, 260 millions of lusophones, 220 millions of Arabic locutors, and 1 billion of English locutors and 1,3 billions Chinese locutors. In addition, considering the development of Internet that has seen its users number increase by 342% since 2000, we gather more than 1,6 billion users. With a penetration rate of 24%; the digital knowledge diffusion potential is only at its beginning.
Interactive digital stations
In order to diffuse the Digital Encyclopedia on the United Nations towards the targeted audience, it is planned to develop interactive digital stations. Integrating the Encyclopedia as a whole, the visitors will consult it through a touch screen. These stations would be installed within each UN agency welcoming public, in New York and Geneva for instance; they will be placed in the lobby during international conferences. It will then allow visitors to be informed efficiently and directly within the UN through a tool equivalent to numerous paper volumes, short, accurate, easy to use and in several languages.
School version
The children, citizens of tomorrow’s world, regularly use Internet and ICT, and they are sooner and sooner initiated to these, at home or at school, and they do reveal a greater ability than their elders.
The United Nations being particularly involved to instruct and make children sensitive to the great challenges of our century and to their action throughout the world, the conception of a version of the Encyclopedia designed for children and teenagers is then fully legitimate and justified.
