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Pastel World Association organizes an international strip-cartoon contest

:: Posted by max @ 5/28/2004 08:23:00 PM
Co:Olivier Charbonneau/UNESCO



Pastel World Association organizes an international strip-cartoon contest

24-05-2004 (UNESCO)



Pastel World, a Geneva-based association, launches a strip-cartoon contest for all young artists, schools of art and drawing of all the countries in the world, proposing the First World Summit on the Information Society as its platform. This is an innovative project aiming at reducing the digital divide.



The first stage of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which was held in Geneva in the end of 2003, revealed the growing digital divide between the developed countries and the others. It is becoming urgent to re-inverse this tendency. This is the objective of the strip-cartoon contest on the information society, developed by the Pastel World Association, open to all young artists, schools of art and drawing of all the countries in the world.



The aims of the contest are many:• to raise awareness of the young about unequal access to information;

• to make the young from developing countries to pay interest to this domain;

• to reveal original ideas or existing blockages.



PWA plans to publish winning works and to turn them into an awareness and promotion tool for the projects aiming at reducing the digital divide. An itinerant exhibition, which could be used with the same objective, is envisaged. PWA will also analyse received projects and extract the ideas to be particularly developed.



From now on, PWA has the support of several international organizations, led by Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, who is sponsoring the project.





Link: Pastel World Association (PWA)

Contact: Axel Plathe, UNESCO, Information Society Division
   
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