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UNESCO, the custodian agency for WSIS Action Line C7 on eLearning is convening a high-level event during the WSIS+20 Forum in Geneva to discuss monitoring and governance of technology in education. Building on the recommendations of the 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report on technology in education, the Futures of Education Report, UNESCO’s Guidance for generative AI in education, the publication An ed-tech tragedy? which provided a detailed analysis of experiences with educational technologies during the pandemic and the implications for the future of education and research and the monitoring work carried by the Global Education Monitoring Report and the UNESCO Institute of Statistics with the SDG 4 Benchmarks, the event aims to promote collaboration across sectors and different stakeholders to ensure that the use of technology in education is properly defined,  measured and governed, and places learner’s interests at the center.   

The event will bring together governments, the private sector, civil society, academia, and international organizations to discuss how can technology be better leveraged for learning and how countries and different stakeholders can work together to establish normative standards, agree on common definitions and effectively measure progress on digital learning.  

Within the context of the WSIS+20 Review and the upcoming Summit for the Future, the discussions will focus on:  

Content

1. A presentation of the key findings and recommendations of the 2023 GEM Report and 2024 Gender Report which seek to facilitate equitable, appropriate, sustainable, and scalable use of technology in education. 

Capacity 

2. A discussion on the progress that has been achieved in the definition and measurement on digital skills, for which UNESCO and ITU share the custodianship.

Connectivity

3.  A discussion on ways to measure progress on school connectivity with ITU and the GEM Report, including a presentation on the progress of the benchmark on school connectivity developed by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the GEM Report

Looking at the WSIS+20 Review and the upcoming Summit for the Future, challenges and opportunities that remain on the definition of digital skills and monitoring of digital transformation.

A follow-up session on Scaling multistakeholder partnerships for connectivity and education organized by GIGA and the Digital Transformation Collaborative of UNESCO taking place at 11:00 am in Room H1 will delve into some of these issues emphasizing on the importance of collaboration to drive digital transformation in education.

Both events will provide an opportunity to gather the views from WSIS stakeholders working on issues related to the development of content and capacity of digital learning and strengthening infrastructure and accountability, and to collect their inputs to inform the review of the WSIS+20 action line on e-learning.