OpenEMIS initiative
UNESCO supports Member States in developing or adapting national Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) with a lifelong learning perspective tailormade to fit national contexts and with capacity building and technical support for its smooth operation and administration.
The UNESCO OpenEMIS Initiative builds on public/private partnerships to offer Member States free open source EMIS software components and solutions, low- and high-tech, that respond to the diversity of education systems worldwide. The initiative offers a set of optional free and paid-for certified services and resources to support and facilitate country implementations.
UNESCO’s OpenEMIS Initiative relies on three interlinked factors:
- Establishing an environment that fosters the sustainable development of sector-wide national EMIS supporting education management, planning, monitoring and evaluation.
- Selecting realistic and nationally adapted technological innovations and EMIS architectures to ensure education data are available to stakeholders at all levels of government to school level.
- Developing national capacities and local EMIS service providers’ ecosystems for transfer of the latest free open-source software technologies to be fully owned and managed by governments.
To become a partner or member of the OpenEMIS Initiative, please contact us at openemis@unesco.org.
OpenEMIS: The human impact in Jordan
