Session
Organizer 1: Ihueze Nwobilor, Paradigm Initiative
Organizer 2: Odinakachi Nwafor, Paradigm Initiative
Organizer 3: Khadijah El-Usman, Paradigm initiative
Speaker 1: Theorose Elikplim Dzineku, Civil Society, African Group
Speaker 2: Denaya Dennis Manoah Nigo, Civil Society, African Group
Speaker 3: Bulanda Nkhowani, Civil Society, African Group
Speaker 4: Khadijah El-Usman, Civil Society, African Group
Ihueze Nwobilor, Civil Society, African Group
Khadijah El-Usman, Civil Society, African Group
Odinakachi Nwafor, Civil Society, African Group
Panel - Auditorium - 60 Min
1. How can the internet help in solving the access to education problem in developing countries?
2.How can the internet be made to be accessible to those that need it for educational purposes?
3.Who are responsible for making the internet accessible for educational purposes in developing countries?
Connection with previous Messages:
4. Quality Education
Targets: During the pandemic, many children of school age were forced out school only those who had access to the internet mostly those from high developed countries and high income earning family members in developing countries were able to continue their academic activities online. This contributed to increasing the number of out school children in developing countries. For example in Southern and Eastern Africa according to a UNICEF report 69 million children accounting for 40% of school children in the region were out of school because of the covid-19 pandemic.
My proposal will be be looking at the problem holistically and be proposing solution to preventing the recurrence in future in the of any other crisis like the pandemic. So that no child will lack access to quality education in the face of any crisis in future based on the lessons learnt from the pandemic which the session is going to espouse
Description:
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on education especially in developing countries cannot be overemphasized. This session will be x-ray the impact of covid-19 pandemic on the education system of developing countries, the role the internet played in ameliorating the negative impacts and how countries can leverage on those experiences to design an education system that will be pandemic proved in future. This will be done through a panel session of season speakers who will be bringing their vast experience in the development programming in developing countries to look at how the internet can impact education positively in the Post COVID-19 pandemic recovery era. There will also be room for the audience to make their input both onsite and online during the session. The lessons from the session will also form part of the contribution to conversations around the Global Digital Compact.
The expected outcome of this session will be identification of barriers to access meaningful connection to the internet which has a way of shutting a lot of people in mostly rural communities of developing countries with the aim of drawing attention of policy makers to them and find ways of solving the problem. The session will also bring to light the interconnectivity of access to meaning connection to the internet and the achievement of some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which access to education for all is one of them.
One major output of the session will be that salient points from the session will form major part of the on-going conversation towards developing a Global Digital Compact.
Hybrid Format: 1.We will facilitate interaction between onsite and online speakers and attendees by having an onsite moderator who will coordinate interaction emanating onsite and online moderator who will be coordinating interactions emanating from online. we will create a seamless interface between the two moderators to make sure that both onsite and online activities are well blended.
2.The session will be onsite and a link to participate from the online platform which will be connected to onsite activities will be shared with intending online participants and this process will be managed by the online and onsite moderators
3.Depending on the primary online platform that IGF will be using we can connect that to our organisation's Facebook and Youtube channels for enlarge participation and reaching of a wider audience
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