The High Touch High Tech Summit 2021 (HTHT 2021) , Education Commission Asia’s inaugural global conference on artificial intelligence in education, was held online globally and in person in Seoul, Korea from June 29-July 2, 2021. Education Commission Asia, in…
As the education community continues to mobilize efforts towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4), stakeholders at all levels of the system are grappling with questions on how to deliver inclusive quality education. What communities will benefit most…
As a technical adviser, researcher, innovator, and activist, I have lived, practiced, and closely observed the adoption of delivery approaches at scale. In Pakistan, the past two decades have been packed with emergencies and political shifts that have pushed politicians and bureaucrats to work together to address education challenges.
The upcoming Global Education Summit for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), co-hosted by Kenya and the UK, has an ambitious target of raising USD $5 billion to transform education systems in up to 90 countries, so that all children can get a quality education. This is a very laudable mission indeed.
Education Ministers from across the globe are being urged to prioritize quality climate education as a major outcome at the next UN Climate Conference when they meet in Italy as part of the Group of 20 (G20) round of meetings.
The Education Commission and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) launched the African Policymaker Forum on Delivery Approaches and COVID-19 Response, welcoming representatives from nine countries who will learn from the evidence of how to deliver reforms in education.
On May 27, 2021, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in partnership with donors including the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Dubai Cares launched the Global Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition – a ten-year collaboration of academic…
The rise of fine-grain geospatial data has the potential to change education policy planning and increase educational equity and efficiency across the globe. In our forthcoming paper in the academic journal Development Engineering, we make available a data-driven…
Around the world, individuals are using maps to power everyday decisions: how do I navigate from my home to the nearest hospital? How many supermarkets are in my community? What public transportation is available for me to take to work?