Last week, UNESCO Bangkok headquarters hosted a TYPO3 training course dedicated to the internal staff of web editors and administrators. Training involved a group of 30 web editors and administrators who attended a 5 days session course about all aspects of cms TYPO3.
Webformat, one of the most important TYPO3 European web integrator and consultancy, organized the training course focussing on the new functions, configuration and development of the cms.
UNESCO Bangkok improves web communication
"For UNESCO sharing of knowledge is an essential part of its constitutional mandate. Through its various portals, UNESCO offers, therefore, a wide array of services to members of professional communities in the area of communication and information." [portals.unesco.org]
As the Asia and the Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, UNESCO Bangkok promotes programs and coordinates responses in order to achieve the goals related to social, cultural, technological and educational development.
Through the UNESCO's website a large amount of pages and media resources are being provided to UNESCO professionals and local area institutions in a very cost-effective, detailed and comprehensive modality. http://www.unescobkk.org has become a precious tool, a powerful communication medium for the development and integration of ICT in different aspects of the social and cultural development of the South-East Pacific region.
The sharing of knowledge and information through the web has been made possible also by the use of open source cms TYPO3. The whole staff of web editors and administrators edit more than 6,000 pages in which UNESCO actions and projects are explained, described and made clear.
The huge quantity of contents edited and communicated through this website requires a reliable and flexible content management solution and TYPO3 fulfils perfectly this fundamental requirement. Among the greatest benefits of using this open source CMS, there is also its potential customizability, its flexibility and easiness of use which allows different skilled editors to keep content updated.
The training experience has contributed to the improvement of the editing and administering tasks performed by the whole staff. Some advanced functions, such as TYPO3 Multilanguage options, were particularly welcomed as the website is becoming a reference point for UNESCO development projects and a source of precious information for the multicultural institutions and professionals of the whole Pacific area.