Digital Inclusion Summit: Leaving no one behind
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Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.
People with disabilities
Of an estimated 1 billion people with disabilities in the world today, some 785 million are of working age. While many are successfully employed and fully integrated into society, most face a disproportionate level of poverty and unemployment. This is a massive loss both to them and their countries. A strategy of including people with disabilities in training and employment promotion policies, combined with targeted supports to ensure their participation, can help disabled persons obtain productive mainstream employment.
The digital revolution is having a twofold impact on adult learning: it is changing the world of work, and therefore the competences that workers should develop, and it is redesigning the way learning takes place. As the COVID-19 emergency has shown, the increased use of digital technologies risks to further exclude vulnerable citizens from their lifelong learning journeys: to balance this risk and to enjoy the full impact of the digital revolution, it is time to act by fostering digitally inclusive approaches. The Digital Inclusion Summit will shape collectively a framework of action, inspired by good practices across the globe and provide you with the necessary tools and practices in order not to leave anyone behind through digital technologies.
The power of digital inclusion
Digital inclusion is not about hardware or software, it is about leveraging a different mindset, which embraces cultural and cognitive diversity to the fullest, and which is part of a larger digital ecosystem. COVID-19 has shown the amazing potential of digital solutions for lifelong learning and employability, but has also confirmed that an increased use of digital technologies can exclude vulnerable citizens. This event aims, through a marathon of conversations, interactions and networked collaborations, to reach a comprehensive view on this complex issue.
What do we want to do?
- Co-create a comprehensive framework of action that systematically integrates the digital inclusion dimension in the world of lifelong learning
- Get inspired by innovative, impactful and transferable practices from across the globe and learn from experts in the field how to design successful digital inclusion interventions
- Build a reflective community of practice where knowledge exchange creates unique learning opportunities for professionals with an interest in digital inclusion for lifelong learning.
Who is the Summit for?
- Individuals (grassroots practitioners, researchers, experts) who want to learn about latest developments and best practices in the field
- Organisations (training providers, NGOs, etc) which want to upgrade their strategy and capacity to implement digital inclusion initiatives
- Policy-makers dealing with social and digital inclusion through lifelong learning, who want to discuss the best ways to approach complex digital inclusion issues.
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