Our aim is for the workshop - 

1. to provide a small but significant stepping stone to building new partnerships between stakeholders with an interest in achieving SDG Goal 4.
2. to engage potential partners from government, industry, and international organizations seeking approaches to support open, scalable capacity-building that empowers communities on their way to sustainable development and resilience.

SDG Target 4.7 aims to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development. For most if not all global organizations, it is a major challenge to scale up their education and other capacity-building efforts. The workshop will explore new ways to harness digital learning toward this goal.

Workshop concept summary

• SDG Target 4.7 aims to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development.
• For most if not all global organizations, it is a major challenge to scale up their education and other capacity-building efforts.
• The digital transformation of learning, education, and training (LET) enables a new economy of effort to accelerate progress toward this Target, but also creates new, complex problems.

What is the point of this workshop?

The workshop will explore new ways to harness digital learning toward SDG Target 4.7.

• We believe that many organizations are working (explicitly or implicitly) toward this target and some may achieve isolated impact.
• However, there is currently no shared vision or common agenda, a lack of mutually-reinforcing activities that could build trust and encourage communication, and no shared measurement system to track progress.
• We hope to provide a small but significant stepping stone toward collective impact by stakeholders with an interest in leveraging the digital transformation of education to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Following the WSIS workshop, the Geneva Learning Foundation will launch a new #DigitalScholar partnership open to all stakeholders interested in capacity-building at scale. By confirming your interest in the WSIS workshop (even if you are unable to attend), you will receive an invitation to the online briefing that will explain and launch this new initiative.