
World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB) Platz der Vereinten Nationen 2, 53113 Bonn, Germany
The fifth Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum will take place from 25 to 27 June 2012 in Bonn. "Culture. Education. Media - Shaping a Sustainable World" is title of this international conference.
We are all part of a global society overflowing with information that can be accessed practically anywhere and at any time. We are also confronted with a chilling statistic: Approximately 850 million people around the world are illiterate, most of them in crisis regions and war zones. Even in a highly industrialized nation such as Germany, 14 percent of the population is “functionally” illiterate, according to a recent study by the University of Hamburg.