CINeSPACE Project (6th Framework Programme - European Commission)enables users to interact with location-based multimedia contents, related to urban, film and Cultural Heritage while touring a city. Audiovisual content is delivered via a Head Mounted Display with a high definition screen. This comprises a camera allowing users to record what they are seeing and to upload onto the system through a WLAN hotspot or 3G connection. CINeSPACE aims providing collaborative experiences for users, enabling them to share personal experiences while on the move.

Conceived as an interactive tool to encourage the discussion of human security issues and networking among civil society organizations, researchers, policy makers, journalists and the general public, locally and internationally, Comunidad Segura combines news, virtual communities, and the Virtual Library on Public Security and Human Rights with over one thousand publications (http://www.comunidadesegura.org/index.php?q=pt/trip_search/advanced). Our news coverage includes human safety with an emphasis on youth and armed violence, security sector reform, gun control, culture of peace and most recently, peace building in Haiti. We publish stories in four languages, encouraging submissions by contributors and the creation of virtual communities.

The Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe is a unique on-line information and monitoring system which provides easy access to data, facts, trends and summaries of current debates on national cultural policy developments and trends in Europe.

This transnational project was initiated by the Steering Committee for Culture of the Council of Europe and has been running as a joint venture with the European Institute for Comparative Cultural Research (ERICarts) since 1998. The system is updated on an annual basis by a unique community of practice made up of independent cultural policy researchers, NGOs and national government representatives.

The content of the Compendium cultural policy country profiles address the priority issues of the Council of Europe including those set by the Warsaw Summit of Heads of State (2005): cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and social cohesion. The country profiles report on current challenges to policy concerning: the role of different partners in a changing system of governance for culture; programmes that support creativity; measurements of participation in cultural life; and economic, legal and educational dimensions of cultural policies. New data and indicators are constantly introduced to regularly monitor policy developments and trends in Europe.

The Compendium has become a working tool consulted on a daily basis by authorities, institutions and individuals involved in cultural policy making and research not only in Europe but world-wide.

The Compendium online version continues to be used as a capacity building tool at a number of universities around Europe and features on several university reading or resources lists for students of cultural policy, management and cultural economics around the world. In this context, the Compendium has become an important training tool for current and future cultural policy makers and administrators.

In conjunction with National Day celebrations (9 Aug), MICA worked with a secondary school, Victoria School, to invite primary school students across Singapore to produce websites and videos on the things they love about Singapore, based on the theme “I©SG”. A separate competition was also run for members of public using the same theme.

Sharing ideas about good food from a local, regional and international perspective, makes this a very imaginative and attractive initiative for children, parents and teachers. It allows participating groups to open their minds and explore the cultural aspects of all European countries involved.

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VITI4kids is a multimedia edutainment website for Arab kids in the age group 4 to 9 years, that aims at building up their computer and IT knowledge.

Viva Favela is Viva Rio’s largest IT Program , focused on the social and digital inclusion of children, teenagers and youth in poor neighborhoods, who are particularly exposed to risks in a conflictive environment.

Young Diplomats...
The Young Diplomats project will try to establish the link between different kinds of celebrations in Asia and Europe. It will help to know and understand better the spirit of cultural manners and bring students from Asia and Europe closer to each other through the process of self presentation and studying different traditions. It will help the students to understand better their own traditions and historical/cultural roots as well. Schools put photo-reportages of national holidays to a website, and the selected ‘international ambassadors' of each school, collaborating with the embassies, will make multimedia presentations of the different celebrations for one publishing, as well as conduct actual celebrations at the school.

Summary of what was done in 2007 year:
http://www.youngdiplomats.zsei.info/photo/thumbnails.php?album=88