Webinar *today* 12 noon UK time: Media and Information Literacy for Government Officials and Policy-makers

Only heard about it this morning: one hour webinar Media and Information Literacy for Government Officials and Policy-makers, part of the WSIS Forum 2021, register at https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2021/Agenda/Session/399. "This workshop proposal draws on the need and importance of MIL policies and strategies at the national level and is inscribed in a current project being jointly developed by UNESCO (https://en.unesco.org/themes/communication-and-information), UNU-EGOV (United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance https://egov.unu.edu) and UAB (Autonomous University of Barcelona https://www.uab.cat/web/universitat-autonoma-de-barcelona-1345467954774.html) to design a MIL Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for Government Officials and Policy-makers."
The panellists are Barbara Lison (IFLA’s President-Elect and Governing Board member), Ramon R. Tuazon (Secretary General, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), Philippines), Dorcas Bowler (Director of Libraries, National Library and Information Services - Ministry of Education, Bahamas), Tomás Durán-Becerra (Head of Research, UNIMINUTO University, Colombia), Alton Grizzle (Programme Specialist in Communication and Information, UNESCO), Delfina Soares (Director of the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance, UNU-EGOV, Portugal), Laura Cervi (Serra Húnter Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain), Mariana Lameiras (Senior Academic Fellow, United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV)