On March 26-30, 2018, invited by UNESCO headquarters, Ms. Fan Li, Chief of the Asia-Pacific Programme Office, attended the "UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2018" held in Paris, France. She is invited to give a presentation on topic of "Help university equip learners with job-ready digital skills by establishing Digital Education Link Project", raised attention by the participants from Asia-Pacific and Africa.

Ms. Fan Li is giving talk

Since the success of the first "UNESCO Mobile Learning Week" held in 2011, it has become UNESCO's flagship summit in the field of ICT in Education. The 2018 event was jointly organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and UNESCO, under the theme of "Skills for a connected world". More than 1,000 experts and representatives from governments, international organizations, public sectors in education, NGOs, and education technology industries from all regions of the world gathered and exchanged knowledge about how to define and achieve the skills-related targets specified by Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4).

The conference, consisting of four related sub-events, will facilitate actions to: Defining and mainstreaming digital skills; Innovating skills provision for jobs in the digital economy; Closing inequalities and gender divides; and Mapping and anticipating changing skill needs. The ICHEI representative reviewed relevant data in the Asia-Pacific region during the talk, taking the Digital Education Link Project currently being implemented in 6 Asian and African countries as an example. She took the Smart Classroom Project, the Pakistan ICT literacy Project and Huawei ICT Academy Project as case studies to share good practices on how higher education should do to improve job-ready digital skills for their graduates. Her presentation has attracted representatives from some Asian and African countries such as Australia, Cambodia, the United Arab Emirates, Nigeria etc. and gained quite positive feedbacks.