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.
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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:
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Download a brochure about World
Ecitizens
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.
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