Venezuela Infocentre Foundation was honored Wednesday with the UNESCO Prize King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information Technologies and Communication in Education, said that organization based in Paris onusiana .

The award, this year focused on the digital basic instruction in order to "prepare adult learners for learning throughout life" and "for a flexible working life, was granted a motion for a jury international.

Infocentro Foundation was selected by the jury because of their project "Literacy technology and older adults, "said the press service of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

This foundation is a government agency under the Ministry of Popular Power for Science, Technology and Intermediate Industries of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which provides adults and other users free access to ICT (Information and Communication), to be trained to learn throughout life.

"The Foundation has enabled Infocentro more than a million Venezuelans (...) now possess basic technological knowledge, UNESCO said, citing the 680 "educational infocentres" established in various parts of Venezuela.

The Prize was also awarded the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education in the UK, and is worth $ 25,000, will be delivered by the Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, 12 January 2011 in the headquarters of the organization.

The winning projects were chosen from 49 nominations from 34 countries and an inter-governmental Asia.