The Right to Knowledge
A Learning-Systems Approach for the Sustainable Development Goals
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Beschreibung
At a time when the future shape of international development and the meeting of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are highly uncertain, this book outlines a years-tested, learning-systems approach for cost-effectively scaling the reach, engagement, and adoption of gold-standard research-for-development (R4D) innovations to support the SDGs to the widest possible demographics. If you are researching, producing, or disseminating public-good e-extension solutions for problems at any scale, this book’s interventions at all points along the value chain—from basic research to solution development, distribution, uptake, and end-user feedback—enable reaching even the most difficult-to-reach groups, especially those in the global South, those who speak local rather than majority languages, may have low or no print literacy, are geographically isolated, or face barriers to inclusion and participation (particularly women, minorities, and marginalized groups).
Describing or offering “menus” or “encyclopedias” of accessible educational content on R4D innovations placed in diverse local languages to help reach the SDGs requires coordinated global partnerships among content creators (SDG 17), delivery systems using formal and informal pathways to provide life-sustaining knowledge (SDG 4), and diverse digital communities of practice with the access necessary to locally exercise their right to that knowledge (SDG 16). Implementing this book’s learning-systems approach opens channels for advancing all the SDGs, especially prioritizing the eradication of poverty and hunger, improving health and well-being, providing safe shelter, and ensuring gender security.
This empirically researched and grounded book presents a learning-systems approach for mass-scalable educational content ultimately intended for use across any language, literacy level, culture, or digital divide. The work here is based primarily on Purdue University's Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO) initiative. Addressing the crosscutting issues of resilience, genders, socioeconomic status, geographic isolation, age, and other important development parameters, it provides one answer to how we (as a global development community) should address these issues to meet the SDGs globally and the good life for people and communities locally. At its core, this is a matter of making timely information available (whether by deliberate searching, word-of-mouth/"viral" redistribution, or even "stumbling" across the information, with or without personalized user-targeting)—in other words, by reproducing how the Internet already socially "works" (while avoiding how it doesn’t work) to deliver information in a deliberate, reliable, and measurable way for outcomes, and especially for overcoming "wicked" development problems, attain or surpass the SDGs on-schedule, and open people’s access to the good life where they live.
Presents theory and extensive case studies on mass-scalable and accessible education for sustainable development Describes how ICT4SD efforts can help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals Discusses how learning materials can be used across any language, literacy level, culture, or digital divides
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Julia Bello-Bravo
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