The Internet UNESCO Leaders（下）

this way, it will refer that “it is decided to reform the home page of the web establishing a more immediate and more comfortable starting point for the navigation. the links will lead to different parts of the text and in the page, and to another pages. the virtual campus will be ordered the way it is possible so see at first sight the group of the existing elements as the secretary, the library, the kiosk, the announcement board, the tutorship office, the intercultural auditorium of the world artistic manifestations and current events conferences, the chat club of the unesco eskola and the information center. the virtual city, itself, will be ordered like the campus using the space with the current elements, which, for the time being, are: the unesco leaders associations information center, the unesco leader’s professional exchanges office, the development agency, the public square and the news mailbox3

in the virtual campus of the florida, the students of the cdfaun can find their tutor that advises them, helps them and guides them in the study process; also they can find their consultants that guide them in the course exercises. in this virtual campus the students have access to the united nations observatory electronic magazine as well as other magazines. they can receive all sort of addresses that enable them to obtain information on the activities of the center, libraries, activities or information on the united nations system. so the unesco training center - florida eskola offers the opportunity to study the cdfaun to people that don't want or they cannot move. the virtual campus allows to overcome barriers of time and space and it facilitates the individualised contact and interactivity among students, professors and administration personnel. the unesco leader receives personalised attention at home, they have access to multiple services, they can work a virtual debate forum and they can get in contact with the scientific and cultural community of the world.

particularly, the united nations observatory electronic magazine is maintaining its first issue news. its number 63, dated on february 1999, titled “the electronic magazine. united nations observatory ”, reads: “starting from this number 63, in the united nations observatory magazine there will be a lot of words printed in boldface letters -in the traditional printed edition - or in colour -in the internet edition -. this is because the documents and articles are formed by a combination of texts and graphic images that include ‘links'. these ‘links' are shown in the screen as highlight words and sentences in different colours or framed graphic images. the ‘links' can be recognised by the pointer of the mouse changes its form when it is on one of them, acquiring the aspect of a hand with its extended forefinger.

the ‘links' or highline word-sentence-images are references to other documents or resources in internet. placing the arrow of the mouse on the word and clicking on it activates them. immediately, you have on your screen a new document, an image, a sound or a videotape sequence.

therefore, the ‘links' are access roads to other resources in internet that can be in any part of the world. the united nations observatory offers documents that include links to establish connections with multimedia objects -pictures, sounds, etc. -. the users of the magazine don't have to worry about addresses, protocols or resources types; all that they need to make is a mouse click on the ‘link.

summary

the internet has become a virtual mirror of the real world. internet is the word that explains that the earth is becoming digital, the frontiers are fading away and everyone can have the world in a handbag and take it away as if they were a come-back-to-life-hercules.

the internet is an instrument that is good to work, to study, to investigate, to entertain and to consult without interruptions, with permanent service in any place and at any hour during the day

internet presents many faces: kind, dark, disturbing and colourist. it is an informative web that moves money, ideas, education and work. anybody who once has navigated through the net can not be indifferent, or after having been able to travel to any corner of the world without really moving from home can not help thinking of the immense possibilities of a device that allows to travel so much, to see so much and to talk to so many. it is a kind of a necessary illusion that, although partially only, reflexes the reality.

in this paradox, travelling without moving, one of the most hopeful factors of the net is the disappearance of the passivity. today the net offers the individual the possibility to select, to choose, to move, to stroll for museums, to talk to other people, to even see them - in real time. just an electronic board, a videotape, a microphone and the suitable software and you have a face to face relationship; the passivity has been broken.

to speak, to point, to dialogue, and to discuss in the net is so simple as to enter in one of their chat forum -chat -. and it is not necessary to do superhuman efforts neither unaffordable payments, as one could think by the fact of having connected to the most recondite places in the planet. it doesn't cost a penny, although it is worth a lot.

this is possible thanks to the computers that today are, mainly, communication instruments more than calculating machines. these machines are able to process such a quantity of information, to relate it, to increase it, to illustrate it with images in movement and sound. it has meant a revolution in the traditional text manuals and has opened a door to a peaceful encounter among the people in a society that seems to head to the individualism, to "the strongest survival" or "security belts".

in this global city, as internet is, it doesn't lack of anything. you may find, for instance, supermarkets or the necessary instructions to build a bomb. but there are also informative centers, educational entities, educational material and professional training as well as proposals to make a different better world.

it is in this most positive and philosophical part in the cybernetic global city where the unesco training center - florida eskola installed its virtual place. a powerful instrument as it is the integration in the net of so many computers, was used to elaborate a product that could arrive to all those destinations, to all the screens.

the product is named unesco leader training distance course unltcc (cdfaun). year after year, there are professionals from all over the world that joint it -in this case specialised in the application of the ideals in the system of the united nations - they have been trained for two years.

these professionals with specific formation on the purposes of the international community have developed a cast of abilities and skills that transform them into singular impellers in the human communities according to the objectives and purposes of the united nations system.

the mission of these unesco professional leaders is, fundamentally, in the environment of their own regions and countries or, eventually, in natural or provoked disasters, but they can also act outside their own countries as oranges helmets in co-operation with the fund, agencies and programs of the united nations.

the unesco professional leaders that have followed the two year-old educational institutional cycle, have had access to their training through the normal mail or via internet, using the printed material, diskette or the cyberspace.

in this last modality, the electronic mail becomes an instrument of great value for the student's personal follow-up. that is to say, the electronic mail is the tool that guarantees a tutorial order, near and quick, among other things. the messages arrive to their destination in seconds and the answers hardly delay some minutes if the contact in real time.

when in 1992-1993 the unesco training center - florida eskola started this course it was far from thinking that what it was using for the correspondence education could end up occupying some streets of the cybernetic global city global in the internet. at that time, only the privileged ones used it. today everything has changed. from few thousands to today's millions the web -the world wide web - has fallen over as a net, wrapping everything. in 1997, the unesco leader training distance course unltdc (cdfaun) found in internet a very appropriate space for their development.

the existence of students, actual and future ones, in countries along the five continents where the analogical communications were an added problem, accelerated the adoption of the net as communication vehicle for those who decided to get ready as unesco professional leader.

indeed, the corresponding webpage was created and although too many formal reformations were not introduced in the course, the curriculum was restructured. in this occasion enlarging it, on the contrary of what is normal when completing it or adapting it.

after some months passed it was noticeable that internet became an allied of the cdfaun, mainly, thanks to the stability and characteristic transparency of the net. in the webpage, the twenty-four topics of the completely developed and autonomous course contained the fundamental matter without the need to search in other sources apart from the net. they were multimedia documents where you can interact or those that you can access every month through a code provided by the unesco training center - florida eskola via electronic mail.

the cdfaun in internet had particular connotations. the course is followed inside the net, without getting out of it and using its immense resources. in addition to this, if you count the autonomy of each topic that developed the concepts concentrically without other derivations, you have the most outstanding characteristic of this kind of education via internet: the auxiliary elements are there, it is not necessary to look for them outside the screen; from there, you can start many of the proposed activities just by knocking on an address, then you are in contact with other people; further precision of any aspect can be contrasted in the numerous virtual libraries; contacts, exchanges and all sort of help can be activated inside the net and in real time; the international opinion on certain matters can be brought to first plane just by executing a combination of symbols.

having worked for years, the cdfaun has been updated to a time in which many are getting used to acquire knowledge navigating through internet; but also in a time in that the permanent education is not only a clamour, but a form of continuing participating in the existence in a responsible way.

the unesco leader course is a specialised and permanent education that takes place simultaneously with the employment. it provides the possibility to acquire some professional skills; but now, all this is possible by teaching entity like the unesco training center at florida eskola, an entity without walls, without any defined location, neither classrooms in the traditional sense of the term.

it can be said that the cdfaun is a stadium of the digital education. it is a virtual campus made by the unesco training center - florida eskola. the students and professors can establish contacts among them, attend debates, receive the monthly magazine united nations observatory and exchange information horizontally.

the net allows the contact and exchange between the professor and the students, and it restructures completely the relationships between both groups. with regard to the simple teaching at distance, the virtual center humanises it, it recovers the unity in the communication and it strengthens the dynamic interaction.

on the other hand, the fact that delegations of the cdfaun exist in diverse countries that are support and diffusion headquarters that cannot disappear in spite of the existence of the virtual campus means that they complete other interesting functions, such as being the place for meetings and videoconferences -in the territory of jurisdiction of the delegation - sessions, seminars and another type of communications that can be organised covering diverse topics with different parts of the world.

there is another net inside the net; but this one is not computer based: the world association of unesco professionals leaders waupl (amupraun).

this world association was born in the 50o anniversary of the foundation of the united nations. and as it adopted the unesco constitution, it is an organism that links all the unesco professional leaders. after obtaining the unesco leader diploma granted by the unesco training center - florida eskola, those professionals in this speciality that want to, will be part of the world association. the world association establishes the international exchanges among colleagues and their activities, it co-ordinates the international actions of the orange helmets when the circumstances requires them and it directs, it administers and it distributes the help equally among the leaders in their own territory directly, without any third part intervention. the knowledge and cultural vicinity that guarantees the effectiveness support all this. all these tasks, apart from being agents of prevention, forecast and education in the social inadaptation field as well as in the natural or provoked tragedies.

in these last ones, their task is to be prepared for the foreseen calamities in order to palliate its devastating effects, sensitising about the dangers and of the indispensable means between the people and those taking decisions. for that reason, it is necessary as well as reasonable to proceed to underline this task, because, at least, it is cheaper than the aid operations and reconstruction cost.

the world association of unesco professional leaders (amupraun), without denying its expertise in the strategies on crisis to restore the organised and balanced collective life after the disaster, it is more experienced in the preventive field; that is to say in education, in training the most active means in advance and in making the population be responsible.