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Digital Citizenship in Asia-Pacific: Translating Competencies for Teacher Innovation and Student Resilience Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok A digitally-equipped and competent teaching force is crucial for cultivating students' digital citizenship skills. This UNESCO report, consisting of a comprehensive analysis comprising 15 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, unveils compelling evidence pertaining to what factors influence teachers' Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills and their impact on students’ digital citizenship competencies. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the findings of this report show that students are developing most of their digital citizenship competencies through self-directed learning and outside of school. Nevertheless, teachers still play an important role, particularly in coaching students to use technology safely and effectively. Thus as UNESCO reports, Digital Creativity and Innovation remains relatively underdeveloped in all participating research countries. Additionally, female students tend to benefit more from teachers' guidance and advice, especially in terms of Digital Safety and Resilience. Support for teachers in terms of access to ICT infrastructure and training on ICT and pedagogical skills will contribute towards improving their ability to effectively guide and mentor their students, ultimately leading to better outcomes in terms of digital citizenship competencies. To achieve this, it is important for education systems to develop comprehensive and contextualized approaches to enhance digital citizenship capacities in teachers. Education policymakers and leaders are encouraged to use the 10 recommendations herein as a ‘roadmap’ to ensure that teachers are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively integrate digital citizenship education into their teaching practices. This will ultimately help prepare students for the digital world and ensure their safety and well-being online. 
Study on the Cultivation of Students’ Digital Citizenship Literacy in the Political Ideology Course (Creative Education Studies; Vol.11, No.3) Year of publication: 2023 Author: 邹云霞 | 杨又 Human society is entering the digital age. The new generation of information technology has changed the way people exist, making them have a new form of digital citizens. While digital sur-vival brings convenience to youth students, it also brings about social problems such as cyberbullying, Internet addiction, online fraud and so on. Therefore, this paper first defines the concept of digital citizenship, then discusses the necessity of cultivating digital citizenship, and finally gives the corresponding measures to bring enlightenment for the cultivation of digital citizenship in the new era. 
Digital Museum: Citizenship and Culture 2020 Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Conversations about digitality and museums were transformed, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, towards actions and topics related to the creation of content with perspectives of building a digital citizenship where activism, free access and the exercise of cultural rights They are confronted with the paradoxes of the privatization of knowledge, job insecurity, 2.0 exploitation systems and the emergence of asymmetrical time horizons. This publication expands on the conferences, dialogues, workshops and case studies presented at the homonymous meeting held in November 2020. 
#HerEducationOurFuture: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality; the Latest Facts on Gender Equality in Education Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO | Global Education Monitoring Report Team Gender gaps persist in innovation and technology Innovation and technology can be instrumental in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of girls and women. Achieving this requires girls and women to be involved in the fields of technology and innovation and their rights in online spaces to be protected. 
Artificial Intelligence Needs Assessment Survey in Africa Year of publication: 2021 Author: Prateek Sibal | Bhanu Neupane Corporate author: UNESCO There are encouraging signs of AI innovation and development across Africa, from community run AI classes over weekends, AI training bootcamps for students and young researchers to the establishment of private sector and government driven innovation hubs across the continent. Even as there is an enormous potential for AI development, there are also legacy challenges in terms of infrastructure availability as well as human and institutional capacity gaps to develop and govern AI to optimise benefits and minimise harms. Building upon the recommendations of UNESCO report Steering AI and Advanced ICTs for Knowledge Societies, the findings of this survey aim to bridge the information gap concerning the strategic priorities, policy measures, developmental challenges, human and institutional capacity needs, and legal frameworks concerning AI in African countries. 
The Arab Program for Early Childhood Development Year of publication: 2012 Author: Ghanim Bibi | Sawsan Alqadi Corporate author: Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) The file reviews a report on the "Arab Program for Early Childhood Development" workshop. The Arab Program for Early Childhood Development is a framework for sharing good practices in policies and programs, through the following four objectives: enhancing quality through innovation in on-the-job programmes, increasing the effectiveness-to-cost ratio, supporting the measurement of the impact of early childhood care and development approaches, and stimulating regional professional exchange and technical assistance. Increasing the use of media and information and communication technology to qualitatively raise the level of early childhood development programmes. 
An Educator’s Guide to Cyber-Bullying Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: Media Literacy Council (MLC) Cyber-bullying is an increasingly worrying problem in schools across Singapore, affecting students of all ages. This Guide gives you supplementary materials - such as information about the issue and lesson plans for lower primary to pre-university - to help you teach and guide your students through this problem. 
Women Key Actors of Food Resilience: A Reconfiguration of Gender Relations in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Centre for International Cooperation and Study (CECI) The Covid-19 pandemic and its response measures have intensified the vulnerability and shortcomings of food systems in West Africa, affecting all activities and processes of production, distribution, and consumption of food. To this end, rural women in Senegal and Burkina Faso, ensured the resilience of poor and vulnerable households, thus generating recognition of this reality by men. It is therefore essential to give women decision-making power at all levels in the spheres related to the four pillars of security eating. It would be desirable to support and accompany the positive reconfiguration of relationships of power between women and men, already in progress in the communities studied, to ensure that they have the means and skills (social, cultural, economic, political, and legal) to be able to fully play this role. Support for farmer organizations and networks of women's organizations is essential. 
Addressing Hate Speech: Educational Responses Year of publication: 2022 Author: Nicole Fournier-Sylvester Corporate author: UNESCO | UN. Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect This paper is part of a collection of discussion papers, commissioned and produced by UNESCO and the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide (OSAPG).The papers are a direct contribution to the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action and are published in the context of the Multistakeholder Forum and Ministerial Conference on Addressing Hate Speech through Education in September and October 2021.The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the pertinence of the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action, generating a wave of hate speech across the world –further exacerbating intolerance and discrimination towards particular groups and destabilizing societies and political systems. The discussion papers seek to unpack key issues related to this global challenge and propose possible responses and recommendations. 
Digital Citizenship Education Handbook (Edition 2022) Year of publication: 2022 Author: Janice Richardson | Elizabeth Milovidov Corporate author: Council of Europe Digital citizenship competences define how we act and interact online. They comprise the values, attitudes, skills and knowledge and critical understanding necessary to responsibly navigate the constantly evolving digital world, and to shape technology to meet our own needs rather than to be shaped by it. The Digital citizenship education handbook offers information, tools and good practice to support the development of these competences in keeping with the Council of Europe’s vocation to empower and protect children, enabling them to live together as equals in today’s culturally diverse democratic societies, both on- and offline.The Digital citizenship education handbook is intended for teachers and parents, education decision makers and platform providers alike. It describes in depth the multiple dimensions that make up each of 10 digital citizenship domains, and includes a fact sheet on each domain providing ideas, good practice and further references to support educators in building the competences that will stand children in good stead when they are confronted with the challenges of tomorrow’s digital world. The Digital citizenship education handbook is consistent with the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture and compatible for use with the Internet literacy handbook.