Digital Promise Joins Forces with UNESCO to Advance Global Digital Transformation – Digital Promise

Digital Promise Joins Forces with UNESCO to Advance Global Digital Transformation

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December 3, 2024 | By

Key Ideas

  • Digital Promise today announced that we are joining UNESCO’s Global Education Coalition to help advance educational transformation around the world.
  • As part of our membership in this international effort, Digital Promise will support the GEC’s Digital Transformation Collaborative, a multi-stakeholder group committed to driving meaningful, holistic digital transformation across education systems.
  • Digital Promise has identified initial areas of alignment between our own global work and the collaborative’s digital transformation framework and plans to leverage these initiatives to advance the framework globally.

Digital Promise today announced that we have joined UNESCO’s Global Education Coalition (GEC) to support the digital transformation of education worldwide. The Global Education Coalition was launched by UNESCO in March 2020 to respond to the educational disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic and to support recovery and transformation. Since then, its more than 200 members have worked collectively to impact 400 million learners and 12 million teachers across 112 countries.

A primary focus of Digital Promise’s membership in the GEC will be our involvement with the Digital Transformation Collaborative (DTC), a multistakeholder sub-group of the GEC committed to working together to help countries drive forward meaningful, holistic digital transformation in education. Chaula Gupta, vice president and chief program officer, and April Williamson, project director for global programs, will represent Digital Promise in the coalition.

April Williamson attended the Common Framework launch event hosted by UNESCO, UNICEF, ITU, GPE and Cambridge during the UN Summit of the Future Action Days in New York. During the workshop, breakout groups dove into each pillar to identify common challenges and priorities and how the DTC can support countries to put the framework into practice.

“Digital Promise Global has been shaping the future of learning through research, technology, and practice since our founding. We’re honored to have the opportunity to join forces with the GEC and DTC to share our work, learn from their members, and deepen our collective impact on learners across the world,” said Gupta.

The DTC recently published a Common Framework for a more sustainable, human-centered, balanced, and ethical digital transformation of education. The new framework outlines six pillars for positioning technology as an accelerator towards achieving national education priorities and advancing global educational equity.

UNESCO’s Digital Transformation Collaborative (DTC) recently launched a common framework for digital transformation consisting of six pillars, including coordination and leadership, connectivity and infrastructure, cost and sustainability, capacity and culture, content and solutions, and data and evidence.

Digital Promise’s work within the digital transformation space aligns closely with the framework put forth by the DTC. As such, Digital Promise has identified initial ways in which our work can support countries in operationalizing the framework’s six pillars.

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