Co-creating inclusive, literate, digital societies by enhanced lifelong learning ecosystems.

 


Enhanced lifelong learning ecosystems facilitate the promotion of literacy throughout life through formal, non-formal and informal pathways, anchored in multilingual literate environments where people can acquire, use and advance literacy skills in their first languages and beyond. Such ecosystems entail inclusive, fair and democratic governance, systems, institutions, structures, and processes, as well as adequate involvement and representation of stakeholders such as civil society organizations, educators, learners, communities, researchers and the private sector, in decision-making. Given the increasing diversification of actors, greater attention is needed to the issues of equitable, pro-poor public resource allocation and public oversight to safeguard human rights principles, privacy, democratic value and governance and epistemic diversity. Several global multistakeholder partnerships are already in operation, including the UNESCO/UNICEF-led Gateways to Digital PublicLearning and the Digital Transformation Collaborative. Ideas generated through ILD2025 discussions to address issues in these areas are expected to chart future actions at the global, system, programme and practice levels




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