ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—The United Nations cultural agency (UNESCO) has launched an eAtlas for Education 2030 that collects and compiles data for monitoring education development around the world.
“This ground-breaking initiative covers access to education, the quality of education on offer and the results for children and young people,” the organization says on its website.
The eAtlas is the work if UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics (UIS).
“Through a series of interactive maps, the eAtlas presents the global and thematic indicators for each SDG 4 target as well as ‘placeholders’ for indicators not yet available,” reads a UNESCO press release.
SDG4 stands for Sustainable Development Goal.
Through automatic updates of the interactive map from around the world, the organization will be able to see “equity and the quality of education by, for example, illustrating basic proficiency levels in reading and mathematics, completion rates from primary to tertiary education, the percentage of children out of school, the amount being spent on each pupil’s education, and the supply of qualified teachers.”
The eAtlas could also explore “gender disparities, the relevance of education, the safety of the school environment, and the number of adults who are enrolled in primary education programmes.”
The eAtlas is designed to be the one-stop shop for education data where, according to UNESCO, with just a couple of clicks an expert statistician or an ordinary member of the public “can explore the data on digital literacy in Turkey, for example, or school bullying in Namibia.”
The organization hopes that this ‘highly-visual approach’ that can be shared on social media, downloaded and embedded within websites, can help countries to use the data to design their own monitoring system of their education sector.
At this stage the eAtlas is a ‘work in progress’, says UNESCO, and that its Institute of statistics is “working with a range of partners to produce the data through initiatives, such as the Global Alliance to Monitor Learning and the Technical Cooperation Group on SDG 4–Education 2030 Indicators.”
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