World Ecitizens
Sharing cultural diversity
What is the World Ecitizens Project?
The World Ecitizens (WE) Project aims to encourage understanding between
peoples and communities and to share the fascinating diversity within nations
and across the world. WE take responsibility for our actions and strive
to make the world a better place.
The WE web based learning environment is a rich resource for educational collaboration in topics such as responsible citizenship, mutual respect, combating social injustice and conflict prevention and resolution. WE participants can build projects together, join in debates and develop electronic portfolios. Young people achieve World Ecitizen status when they publish a contribution to the WE gallery.
Giving young people a voice
Since January 2003 communities and classes of young people in the UK have presented posters, video clips and comic strips about citizenship issues that concern them. Some of the young people have been working with artists and writers in residence. So far homelessness and international citizenship have emerged as major areas of concern.
WE now includes projects in other parts of the world, including Free State, South Africa.
The World Ecitizens Ejournal
The WEjournal is a gateway where the WE community
leaders and teachers can share ideas for developing humanitarian
projects using ICT as a bridge. Leaders who publish in
the WE journal achieve a Fellowship in World Ecitizenship
for using elearning to draw the peoples of the world together.
Partners in this project have included DfES, SchoolScape@Future, Digital
Brain, Promethean, Microsoft, MirandaNet, 2000AD, Toshiba. Email us if
you would like to participate in world e-collaborations:
Download a brochure about World Ecitizens
- Download colourful brochure (PDF 928 KB)
The Domex UnITy Project
The World Ecitizens project grew out of a project called UnITy,
which was originally funded by Domex. You will find references
to the UnITy project as you browse through the World Ecitizens site.