Digital Skills for a Global Workforce - ICT4D Conference

Programing at a distance and the increased use of digital solutions during the pandemic have created an even stronger need for organizations to skill up internally and support their implementing partners.

ActionAid, CRS, IREX, and the Maternity Foundation will share their lessons learned from the past year on developing and implementing digital skill frameworks and trainings for colleagues or partners, and discuss barriers of virtual learning.

Digital skills

• What digital skills are needed? Updating agency-wide knowledge management and digital learning
• Trends in capacity building, skill standards, and tools to support digital skills training.

Inclusive Virtual Learning

• What have we learnt about digital inequalities – around access, affordability, readiness – in virtual learning during the COVID-19 crisis?
• How does the move into online learning tend to exacerbate exclusion? And what can we do to mitigate this?

Collaboration

• How are we redefining roles and skills within one organization?
• How to ensure virtual collaborations are not a one-off due to COVID-19, and that current plans for virtual learning and collaboration continue to empower local teams and partners?

Speakers

• Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa, Director, Head of Digital and Technology, ActionAid
• Coniqua Abdul-Malik, Manager for Learning Design and Capacity Building, Catholic Relief Services
• Nanna Sten Andersen, Educationalist and Clinical Trainer, Maternity Foundation
• Jesus Melendez Vicente, Senior Technical Advisor, Data and Digital Development, IREX

This webinar is brought to you as part of the ICT4D Conference.