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3. Invites member states to collaborate with one another in order to set global standards
for online education and training through an international framework that promotes
accessibility by:

a. Ensuring global access to the resources developed by UNESCO member States,
b. Creating a new UNESCO working group, focused specifically on using ICTs as a
tool for learning, including:

i. Inviting representatives from any member States willing to join this
working group,
ii. Establishing as primary goals for this working group:

1. Exchange between member States concerning their
experiences of best practices for using ICTs in education,
2. Developing training methods for civil servants responsible for
education, to give them the ability to use new ICT tools

sustainably,
3. A focus on universal accessibility and inclusion of developing
countries;

4. Urges member States to work with resident or foreign private MOOC developer
companies such as Coursera or Udemy to offer a selection of free courses to their
populations, with the recommendation that a standard certification of quality be

developed in this context, to be awarded by the country to MOOCs and other e-
learning services that demonstrate a high level of accessibility and quality;

5. Encourages schools, especially in developing nations, to use computers where possible
in lessons, as a method to integrate technology at a greater level into classrooms and
students’ lives, with the following conditions:

a. Acknowledgement that access to computers or mobile devices is not freely
available to all students, and that therefore these components must be
employed only for enrichment and not as requirements,

b. Limitation of working time on digital tools to one or two hours to guarantee the
health of students,
c. Limitation of the use of computers in lessons to students above 7 years of age;

6. Requests that member States implement a new goal in their school curriculums that
emphasizes digital literacy as something that all of their students should achieve,
according to a definition of digital literacy defined by each member State on a

national level;

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