| APrIGF 2022 Session Proposal Submission Form | |||||||||||||
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| Part 1 - Lead Organizer | |||||||||||||
| Contact Person | |||||||||||||
| Mr. Ashirwad Tripathy | |||||||||||||
| Organization / Affiliation (Please state "Individual" if appropriate) * | |||||||||||||
| Internet Society SIG on Internet for Education | |||||||||||||
| Designation | |||||||||||||
| Chair | |||||||||||||
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| Male | |||||||||||||
| Economy of Residence | |||||||||||||
| Nepal | |||||||||||||
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| Civil Society | |||||||||||||
| Part 2 - Session Proposal | |||||||||||||
| Session Title | |||||||||||||
| Resilience in Digital Education; A holistic overview | |||||||||||||
| Session Format | |||||||||||||
| Panel Discussion | |||||||||||||
| Where do you plan to organize your session? | |||||||||||||
| Onsite at the venue (with online moderator for questions and comments from remote participants) | |||||||||||||
| Specific Issues for Discussion | |||||||||||||
| Three broad issues to be discussed: Issue 1; The first question of discussion centres on "how to improve the accessibility of infrastructure (connectivity, tools, devices) required for providing digital education." Issue 2; The second question explores "what should be done to improve capacity building for both educators and learners". Under the capacity building dimension, three sub-challenges will be examined - the issue of technical skill deficit among educators, language gap in accessing educational content and mitigating cybersecurity risks. Issue 3; Finally, the third dimension of discussion concerns tailoring digital education to prepare the future workforce. Learning is not the same as being ready for the world of work. With unprecedented economic changes ushered by technological innovations, digital education is uniquely positioned to build the future workforce's skill sets. But is digital education sufficiently equipped for the task? Expected Session Outcomes: The session aims to elicit strategies and best practices that support and create a resilient digital education ecosystem, from infrastructure to reforms to policy designs and adequate implementation capacity to workforce strategies. The discussion outcomes will help build on the existing discourse and guide appropriate investment in the space. |
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| Describe the Relevance of Your Session to APrIGF | |||||||||||||
| Designing a people-centric internet is different from a techno-centric one. It caters to the impending needs of people and their aspirations and brings forth an overall improvement in people's lives. In the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, as schools shut down, the educational crisis came to the forefront. While the educational crisis received its fair share of attention, what remains overlooked is the pandemic's potential to leverage technology for education or digital education. The proposed session attempts to bring the issue of 'resiliency in digital education' to the forefront and, in doing so, discusses the following three challenges: Firstly, the challenge of ensuring an equitable supply of suitable infrastructure – from telecommunication networks to digital technologies. This strand of enquiry covers the sub-themes of Inclusion (digital divide, accessibility, empowerment) and sustainability (socio-economic impact of sustainability) Secondly, the challenge of equipping educators with the necessary skills and competencies is that educators cannot be expected to be effective digital facilitators without capacity building. Parallelly, while ed-tech innovations flourish, both educators and learners expose themselves to cyber risks and need to be trained on cybersecurity. This strand of enquiry covers the sub-themes of Inclusion (capacity building, empowerment) and Trust (cyberbullying and cyber-crime) Thirdly, the challenge of empowering young people to become more resilient and adaptable to rapidly changing labour market dynamics across Asia-Pacific. The world of work is increasingly reliant on emerging technologies. As digital education incorporates tech tools, it is likelier to impart relevant skillsets for the future workforce. This strand of enquiry covers the sub-themes of Inclusion (capacity building, empowerment) and sustainability (future of work, socio-economic impact of the internet) |
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| Moderators & Speakers Info (Please complete where possible) | |||||||||||||
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| Please explain the rationale for choosing each of the above contributors to the session. | |||||||||||||
| Moderators: Kaarika and I planned the session together. Kaarika is PhD candidate at National Institute of Education Planning and Administration. Her interest lies in digital education reform. I have 10 years of practical experience of working in grassroot projects and research works on internet and education. Speaker: Rajnesh Singh: As this session is organized by Internet Society SIG on Internet for education, Raj insights and perspective from the Asia pacific will be very valuable. Prof. Abbasi: Prof. Abbasi have unique insight and immense experience in bridging the digital divide. Post Covid, she has been working with IEEE SA on building standards on blended mode of education Binod Basnet: Binod is an expert on inclusive education. He is Australian Awards Impact Ambassador to Nepal for his work on education and remote.digital education in marginalized communities of Nepal. He will bring his learning and experience from rural communities.He is also APrIGF2017 fellow. Md. Afzal Hossain Sarwar: Sarwar works as a Policy Specialist (Educational Innovation) at a2i. His primary area of interest lies in ICT for Educational Development (ICT4ED). He designs and conducts appropriate research initiatives for e-service delivery and policy formulation, provides advisory/policy support to respective ministries and divisions, provides guidance to develop an e-learning platform for the different stakeholders, captures local and international best practices and drafts policy documents. |
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| If you need assistance to find a suitable speaker to contribute to your session, or an onsite facilitator for your online-only session, please specify your request with details of what you are looking for. | |||||||||||||
| I would always welcome and advice or suggestion for improvement. One of the Speaker Binod Basnet is dependent of fellowship for travel. If any speaker fail to attend I will ask for help. | |||||||||||||
| Please declare if you have any potential conflict of interest with the Program Committee 2022. | |||||||||||||
| Yes | |||||||||||||
| If yes, please detail the person and his/her level of engagement on your session proposal. (e.g. 1 or more of the PC members are co-hosting/moderating/speaking at the session) | |||||||||||||
| I am in PC and SEC at APrIGF 2022. I am the organizer and moderator. Raj(one of the speakers) is the past chair of Aprigf | |||||||||||||
| Are you or other session contributors planning to apply for the APrIGF Fellowship Program 2022? | |||||||||||||
| Yes | |||||||||||||
| Number of Attendees (Please fill in numbers) | |||||||||||||
| Consent | |||||||||||||
 I agree that my data can be submitted to forms.for.asia and processed by APrIGF organizers for the program selection of APrIGF 2022. |
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