Virtual Schools: Intensifying Digital Divide and Educational Inequality or Promoting Learning Opportunities?

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Amidst school closures due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, some experts suggest running classes online, while others are concerned about exacerbating impacts it may have on the pre-existing educational inequalities and the digital divide. The article argues that this time should be taken as an opportunity to decide the face of future learning and introduce digital education.

COVID TRACING APP NOT USABLE BY PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, THE HINDU

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The app set up by the government of India is not accessible to persons with disabilities, especially those with hearing and visual impairment reports The Hindu.

U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee Joins Nation In Promoting Mental Health Awareness Month

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The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee joins the nationwide movement to promote Mental Health Awareness Month in May through its “We Are Team USA” campaign. The promotion of “in this together” is focused on raising awareness around mental health resources and needs within the Team USA community, promoting a culture that encourages proactively seeking and delivering mental health support

World Press Freedom Day: 2020 Theme: Journalism without Fear or Favour

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On May 3, national and local celebrations for World Press Freedom Day will take place around the world, some in the form of online debates and workshops."As the [COVID-19] pandemic spreads, it has also given rise to a second pandemic of misinformation, from harmful health advice to wild conspiracy theories. The press provides the antidote: verified, scientific, fact-based news and analysis"

National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan, Rockfeller Foundation

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"It starts with a dramatic expansion of testing from 1 million tests per week to initially 3 million per week and then 30 million per week, backed by an Emergency Network for Covid-19 Testing to coordinate and underwrite the testing market, a public-private testing technology accelerator, and a national initiative to rapidly expand and optimize the use of U.S., university, and local lab capacity"

If Virus Tests Were Sodas by Nobel Prize Winner, (Paul Romer)

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"Imagine a world in which the only way to get a soda is to get your doctor to write a prescription. It costs $20 per can. Your insurance company pays. The economy produces about 100,000 sodas each day" says Paul Romer, Nobel prize winner for Economy (2018)

Women Leaders Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & the Future issues call to put women and girls at the centre of response efforts (OECD)

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21/04/2020 - On 20 April 2020, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, and Gabriela Ramos, OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20, convened and chaired the Women Leaders Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 and the Future to address the disproportionately negative impact the COVID-19 pandemic has on women and girls.

Social Impact Talent Report: ECHOING GREEN

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"Echoing Green’s annual Social Impact Talent Report highlights best-in-class social change leaders that we believe have the potential to launch bold new ideas for solving the most pressing and entrenched problems around the world."

An inclusive, green recovery is possible: The time to act is now (OECD Secretary General, Angel Gurría)

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"Governments have a unique chance for a green and inclusive recovery that they must seize – a recovery that not only provides income and jobs, but also has broader goals, integrates strong climate and biodiversity action, and builds resilience."

ANTI-APARTHEID HERO, DENIS GOLDBERG DIES

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The iconic anti-apartheid activist, defined by the Guardian newspaper as a "giant" in the fight against racial discrimination in South Africa and a close associate of Nelson Mandela had died at the age of 87.

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