The project collected over 250 stories recorded all over the country and in several languages. To ensure the widest accessibility, each story was translated first from the local language into Chichewa (Malawi’s most widely spoken local language) and then into English.
The United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) aimed at promoting the country’s economic development through culture and heritage.
Situated within a cluster of forested granite hills and covering an area of 126.4 km2, high up the plateau of central Malawi, Chongini rock art reflect the comparatively scarce tradition of farmer rock art, as well as paintings by BaTwa hunter-gatherers who inhabited the area from the late Stone Age.
Lake Malawi National Park (A World Heritage Site) Fish Conservation project run by Ripple Africa in cooperation with UNESCO with support from Parks and Wildlife, Fisheries and the local communities. The project aims to protect the cichlid fish within 100 meters of the shore and to empower local communities to manage this valuable resource for future generations.
This Recommendation addresses ethical issues related to the domain of Artificial Intelligence to the extent that they are within UNESCO’s mandate. It approaches AI ethics as a systematic normative reflection, based on a holistic, comprehensive, multicultural and evolving framework of interdependent values, principles and actions that can guide societies in dealing responsibly with the known and unknown impacts of AI technologies on human beings, societies and the environment and ecosystems, and offers them a basis to accept or reject AI technologies.
Introductory summary to document 41 C/5 1. The Approved Programme and Budget for 2022-2025 (41 C/5) reflects a strong and renewed ambition for UNESCO at a time when the United Nations system as a whole must mobilize at all levels throughout the decade of action to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
