Leveraging ICT to achieve Education 2030

Leveraging ICT to Achieve Education 2030, the UNESCO-Weidong Group Funds-in-Trust Project, is a 4-year project that helps Member States harness the potentials of ICT to  achieve SDG 4 by 2030.

Specifically, the project aims to:

• Convene global debate and enhance knowledge sharing among policy makers about the ways ICT can be leveraged at scale to support the implementation of SDG 4;
• Help Member States develop national policies, master plans and strategies on ICT in education;
• Formulate partnerships and support national flagship projects on leveraging ICT for SDG 4;
• Strengthen teachers’ capacity-building on ICT in education, and empower women and girls through joint activities with other UNESCO Fund-in-Trust projects;
• Document and disseminate best practices to harness ICT for education with a particular focus on digital innovations.
   

The project includes the following activities

• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education, 2019
• International Forum on ICT and Education 2030, 2017
• International Conference on ICT and Post-2015 Education, 2015
• Development of an OER web portal to support TVET in Uzbekistan
• Creation of OER policy to facilitate lifelong learning in Kazakhstan
• Development of ICT in education policy and master plan in Ethiopia and Namibia
• Training on technology-enabled literacy for marginalized girls and women in Egypt
• Empowering youth in 21st century Palestine with innovative digital and entrepreneurial skills for jobs in a digital economy
• Mainstreaming OER for global digital literacy in Southeast Asia, including organization of the High-Level Forum on OER and global digital literacy and development of SEA MOOC course on global digital literacy.
• Development of ICT/AI in education policy guidelines
• Development of ICT in Education Policy Toolkit
• Creation of Gender Assessment Tools for Teacher Education (GATTE)
• Joint activities with the UNESCO-China-Funds-in-Trust project: Improving the quality of teacher education in sub-Saharan Africa. 

Publications

• Guidelines on the development of open educational resources policies, 2019
• Beijing Consensus on Artificial Intelligence and Education, 2019
• International conference on Artificial intelligence and Education, Planning education in the AI Era: Lead the leap: final report, 2019
• 2017 Qingdao Statement: strategies for leveraging ICT to achieve Education 2030, 2017
• Leveraging information and communication technology to achieve Education 2030: report of the UNESCO 2017 International Forum on ICT and Education 2030, 2017
• Qingdao Declaration, 2015: Seize Digital Opportunities, Lead Education Transformation, 2015
• Leveraging information and communication technologies to achieve the Post-2015 Education goal: report of the International Conference on ICT and Post-2015 Education, 2015