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Supposedly some six thousand users have already been in on beta testing (what, none of you thought to ping your old pals at Engadget?) this service, aptly codenamed the Venice Project probably after the community of streams.
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The Section for Culture of UNESCO Venice Office will ensure overall coordination of the project.
UNESCO: Safeguard and restoration of selected monuments within the World Heritage site of the Old City of Gjirokaster | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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The technical workshop in Venice will involve project partners and end-users in order to jointly develop a concept for global geo-information products for risk prevention and preparedness through EO imagery elaboration.
UNESCO: OFFICE IN VENICE
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The Forum was organized by the UNESCO National Commissions of Slovenia and Croatia and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre (WHC), in close collaboration with UNESCO's Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) and the UNESCO Venice Office.
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The UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy), is associated with the Open Discovery Space (ODS) project, funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT-PSP call 5, and kicked off in Athens in April 2012, resulting of the collaboration between 51 organizations from 23 countries, with the aim to create a socially-powered, multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adaptation of eLearning Resources in Europe.
UNESCO: 2013 Open Discovery Space Summer school (deadline for applications: 16 January 2013) | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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The project was also featured at the Greek pavilion of this year's architecture biennale in Venice.
WSJ: Community by Design | Architecture
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The drafting of the World Heritage Convention was inspired by the international synergy of this great project as well as subsequent UNESCO campaigns during the 1960s to conserve treasures such as the city of Venice, Italy, after the great flood of 1966, the threatened Bronze Age city of Moenjodaro in Pakistan, and the Buddhist temple compounds of Borobodur, Indonesia.
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