00:00The Universal Basic Education Commission has journeyed for years, overcoming hurdles and finally transitioning into its full systems-enabler status,
00:08as opposed to just the fund, that hands out checks.
00:12Today, its new strategy anchors on human capital development and strengthening structures, which is evident in the 240,000 teachers
00:21that have been upskilled in digital literacy.
00:24If we must accept a digitally-driven platform to drive our basic education, we must align it in our totality,
00:34so that it will help us to monitor our activities with respect to basic education.
00:42We are not talking about the tool that a student or a teacher uses. We are talking about digitization in
00:50the reform, which is the management, the process of basic education.
00:54Although the Commission's transparency drive has unlocked more than 100 billion Neurostock grants, and states are now actively accessing funds,
01:04partners like UNICEF are hailing the move, but warn that with millions of children still out of school, the momentum
01:11must be sustained.
01:13Coordination between the states is really important, because while we see a lot of great information systems, use of data
01:20technology within individual states…
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