In a 2001 year UNESCO Cluster Office Almaty
for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan and Uzbekistan
received the request from the Kyrgyz National commission for
UNESCO about support of proposal from Institute of Integration
of International Educational Programs of the Kyrgyz National
University (IIMOP KNU) – “DESK Creation of the electronic
system of distance education in Kyrgyzstan”.
On the basis of two national project
proposals, Division of Communications and Information of
UNESCO HQ Paris was decentralized in the UNESCO Cluster Office
Almaty sub-regional project "Strengthening the
development of distance training networks in Central
Asia".
During the 2th International forum
“Informatization of Education in Kazakhstan and CIS” in
Almaty, October, 17-18, 2002 took place meeting of
representatives of Institute of UNESCO on the Information
Technologies in Education (IITE) (Moscow) and the UNESCO
Cluster Office Almaty. On meeting it was signed the agreement
about the joint activity on realization of above mentioned
project.
The integration of network of the IITE
Focal points for development of a networks of distance
education in Central Asia will allow to optimize the using of
material and intellectual resources, by the joint efforts and
achieve the multiply effect of increase the results.
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