UNESCO and the Smithsonian Institution team up to celebrate the
World Heritage Convention The project ‘Protection, Preservation
and Prosperity: Stories of World Heritage,’ is being launched
today by UNESCO and the Smithsonian Institution to celebrate the
World Heritage Convention. Using mobile phone technology to
reach the wider public, the project focuses on 10 World Heritage
sites which embody, in particular, the role of local communities
in World Heritage preservation. The initiative falls within the
Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two institutions
in September 2010. The M’Zab Valley in Algeria, Kakadu National
Park in Australia, the West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou
in China, the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia, the Rock-
Hewn Churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia, the Fagus Factory in
Alfeld, Germany, the Cliff of Bandiagara in Mali, the Agave
Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila, Mexico,
and Everglades and Taos Pueblo in the United States are the
sites highlighted b