Leveraging digital technologies to promote literacy.

 Promoting literacy as part of the right to education requires ensuring that everyone has access to meaningful lifelong literacy learning opportunities without discrimination and achieves relevant functional literacy in their unique socio-economic, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts as a common good. This can be achieved, for instance, through integrating literacy into national policies and strategies for technology-empowered lifelong learning, literacy provision in multiple learning spaces in formal, non-formal and informal settings linked with national norms and frameworks (e.g. competencies, qualifications and certification), enhancing capacities of literacy educators and other professionals, and continuous monitoring and evaluation of literacy and the use of digital solutions to inform future policies, actions and practice. Collaboration and partnerships within and beyond the education sector are essential, especially where the right to literacy and education is connected to other rights, such as the right to information, the right to culture, and the right to connectivity.