Panel Discussion
Ensuring Public Education Extends into Digital Realms: Introducing the UNESCO-UNICEF-ITU Charter for Public Digital Learning Platforms
Date Thursday, Dec 4 Time – Room: Potsdam I
What should a public digital learning platform do, who should it serve, and what principles should guide its development? The new UNESCO-UNICEF-ITU Charter for Public Digital Learning Platforms helps answer these questions. The Charter sets out a common vision for public digital platforms. It details actions and approaches to ensure that digital learning platforms are public, equitable, complementary, trustworthy, inclusive, and open. Developed under the UNESCO-UNICEF Gateways Initiative with international input, the Charter will be explained at this session and, for the first time, opened for public comment. The Charter provides the first-ever international normative guidance on digital learning platforms.
Mark West
Lead for the Gateways Initiative and Lead for the Futures of Education, UNESCO
Mark West works in UNESCO’s Education Sector in where he researches and writes about the future of education with a special focus on technology.
He develops projects and publications that help the international community identify opportunities and risks for education in an age of accelerating digital change.
Mr. West has written numerous publications for UNESCO, including: ‘An Ed-Tech Tragedy’; 'I’d Blush if I Could'; and 'Reading in the Mobile Era'.
Frank Van Cappelle
Head of the Global Learning Innovation Hub, Global Lead for Digital Education, UNICEF
Carolina Anselmino
Lead for the Gateways Initiative, Lead for Digital Public Infrastructure for Education, ITU
Carolina Anselmino is a Programme Officer at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), where she oversees the work on Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for education within Giga, the joint ITU–UNICEF initiative to connect every school to the internet and empower every learner with access to information, opportunity and choice.
Her work involves contributing to the development of interoperable and inclusive digital ecosystems for education and strengthening alignment with partners on approaches to public digital platforms. Carolina also contributes to global knowledge products, including the report 'Building a Case for a Digital Public Infrastructure for Education'.
With a background in strategic consulting focused on digital transformation, user-centred design and public-sector strategy, Carolina brings expertise in digital governance, ecosystem development and digital public goods - with a commitment to advancing resilient, equitable and learner-centred digital learning systems through Giga.