Lai Mohammed, Tawfik Jelasi, Suraj Olunifesi, others for UNESCO 3rd World Higher Education Conference today
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed will on Friday (today) join Dr Tawfik Jelassi, Assistant Director-General, Communication and Information Sector of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Dr José Manuel Tornero, President of Spanish Radio and Television Corporation, Spain to declare the Media and Information Literacy Event Series at the 3rd World Higher Education Conference open.
The event scheduled to hold on Friday (today) by 12 noon to 2 PM will feature world renowned media scholars including Nigeria’s Dr. Suraj Olunifesi, Associate Professor at University of Lagos (UNILAG).
In response to the overarching need to raise awareness of media and information literacy, UNESCO and NORDICOM commissioned a feasibility study into the establishment of an International Media and Information Literacy Institute.
The International Media and Information Literacy Institute is being established within the UNESCO-UNAOC Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue University Network framework.
Universities from different world regions have agreed to deepen academic cooperation on media and information literacy.
According to the organisers, the event will discuss the role of the Media and Information Literacy Institute in increasing awareness and access to media and information literacy, evidence-based monitoring of media and information literacy development while fostering intercultural dialogue.
Speakers from various partner universities will present their activities in media and information literacy and their contributions to the International Media and Information Literacy Institute.
The event aligns closely with the “International cooperation to enhance synergies” sub-theme of the Third World Higher Education Conference, as international cooperation and partnerships lays in the core of the International Media and Information Literacy Institute.
Other renowned world media scholars scheduled to speak at the conference include; Dr Manuel Pinto, Professor, Minho University, Portugal; Dr Sara Pereira, Professor, Minho University, Portugal; Dr Carolyn Wilson, Executive Director, McLuhan Foundation, Canada; Dr Sally Tayie, Coordinator, International Media and Information Literacy Institute, Egypt; Dr Santiago Tejedor, Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; Dr Felipe Chibas Ortiz, Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Dr Jun Sakamoto, Professor, Hosei University, Japan
The conference will be moderated by Dr Samy Tayie, Professor, Cairo University, Egypt.
