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UNESCO's Virtual Laboratory Toolkit Released - Updated: 28/11/2002
UNESCO's Virtual Laboratory Toolkit Released - Updated: 28/11/2002
The first edition of the UNESCO "Virtual Laboratory Toolkit" has just
been released on the World Wide Web and within UNESCO's Public@
series of representative "open access" CD-ROMs that are giving access
to information in the public domain or to information provided on a
benevolent basis by rights holders.
The Toolkit provides an extensive set of free person-to-person (P2P)
communication tools (audio and video conference, scientific text
chat, whiteboard, collaborative authorship, portal and mailing list
management, etc.), and also basic advice on person-to-equipment (P2E)
tools.
It was developed for UNESCO by a team of specialists working with the
Institute for Informatics of the Technical University of Freiberg
(Technical Coordinator, Germany), the COPINE Centre of the Obafemi
Awolowo University (Ile Ife, Nigeria) and the Shanghai Research
Centre for Applied Physics (China).
The Toolkit is available for testing and application by scientists
and other researchers, particularly in developing countries, who are
interested in creating or participating in virtual laboratories. As a
first step, it is already being tested by an informatics support
group within the UNESCO "cross-cutting" project Virtual Laboratories
for Drying Lakes (Lake Chad, the Dead Sea, the Aral Sea). It is hoped
that, based on the experiences and suggestions of the users, a second
version can be developed by a UNESCO-sponsored virtual laboratory of
virtual laboratory specialists in 2003.
Related links
Virtual Laboratory Toolkit
http://virtuallab.tu-freiberg.de/
Report of the Expert Meeting on Virtual Laboratories, Ames, Iowa, 10-
12 May, 1999
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001191/119102eo.pdf
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) of Ile-Ife
http://www.oauife.edu.ng
Technical University of Freiberg
http://www.tu-freiberg.de
source:
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=6433&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SEC
TION=201&reload=1038578901
