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Thursday, May 12 2022 - 14:48
AsiaNet
Bridging Technology and Education: UNESCO and Huawei Deliver Campus UNESCO for Young People in 20 countries
SHENZHEN, China, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/--

UNESCO and Huawei have to date run ten Campus UNESCO sessions 
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB44wtjdbAz6HZfMUPtoubw/featured), focusing 
on technology and education and reaching students from 39 schools in 21 
countries.

Campus UNESCO is an ongoing program that gives young people aged 14 to 18 the 
chance to share views with experts from UNESCO and civil society. The topics 
discussed in each 90-minute session in either English or French are linked to 
major UNESCO themes such as education, artificial intelligence, sustainable 
development, gender equality, and citizenship.

Huawei has been partnering with UNESCO on the program since June 2021. The 
sessions have covered a wide variety of topics, including the relationship 
between technology and education, new technologies for today and tomorrow, and 
how technology can be used for good. Topics relevant to current issues that 
rose on the global agenda when the pandemic closed school doors in 2020 were 
especially welcomed by the students, including the changes brought to schools 
that either have or lack technology, and the necessity of physical schools when 
everything can be found on the Internet.

"We believe the SDG and COVID challenges are incredible ingredients for 
innovation," said Dr. Valtencir Mendes, Senior Programme Specialist, UNESCO at 
one of the campuses.

Other issues of focus during campus sessions have been the value of digital 
skills and new behaviors to prevent cyberbullying, a threat that is on the rise 
for many teenagers in an increasingly digital world where social media is 
prevalent and when young people are outside the classroom.

Sharing their experiences and views with expert speakers can raise awareness 
among young people, not just about how new technologies will impact today and 
tomorrow, but the role that today's teenagers can have in shaping the future.

As well as UNESCO experts, other speakers include inspirational people from the 
organization's networks, such as NGOs, IGOs, startups, spanning a wide range of 
roles, including scientists, researchers, and local development project 
managers.

Aligned with the aims of Campus UNESCO, Huawei and UNESCO are also partnering 
on the "Technology-enabled Open Schools for All" project 
(https://en.unesco.org/themes/ict-education/teoss), the implementation phase of 
which was launched in 2021 in Ghana, Egypt, and Ethiopia. The three-year 
project is supporting the construction of resilient education systems that can 
withstand global disruptions such as COVID-19. In addition to connecting 
schools, the project is providing training for teachers and students in the use 
of digital tools, establishing online platforms to link school and home 
learning, and developing digital curricula that can be accessed remotely.

The "Technology-enabled Open Schools for All" project is aligned with the 
Tech4Education domain of Huawei's digital inclusion initiative TECH4ALL, which 
aims to drive education equity and quality with technology under the major aim 
of TECH4ALL: to leave no one behind in the digital world.

View the series on the Huawei TECH4ALL official website:

https://www.huawei.com/en/tech4all/stories/bridging-technology-education-campus-unesco


Source: Huawe

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   Caption: The campus in French language real-time screenshot

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