Image Credit: Pexels The Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank announced a set of coordinated actions to accelerate learning by enhancing the digital transformation of education systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. As part of a shared vision of promoting sustainable and inclusive growth, the two institutions will coordinate activities on the $512 million that they are currently investing to boost the region’s digital transformation of education systems. These joint efforts will focus on improving access to connectivity, devices, educational platforms, and digital skills development for students and teachers. As a result, over 3.5 million students, more than 350,000 teachers, and 12,000 schools will be beneficiaries in 16 countries. Furthermore, an additional investment of $400 million is planned to promote this agenda in the next two years. Last August, IDB President Ilan Goldfajn and World Bank President Ajay Banga signed a Memorandum of Understanding, a groundbreaking partnership to drive stronger results for people in three main areas: boosting support for net-zero-deforestation efforts in the Amazon, strengthen the Caribbean’s resilience to natural disasters, and bridging the digital-access gap, across the region. Since then, the technical teams have developed a plan and identified concrete actions to deliver on those […]
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