Issues and challenges to the right to education in the digital age 2016, para. 27

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Information and communications technologies are used to access digital content (the digital versions of analogue originals, such as scanned textbooks). Increasingly, content is being designed for digital use. Online education materials and courses, e-textbooks and video and audio files streamed on the Internet, as all of which are modes of e-learning, are revolutionizing the provision of education. Broadband services and information and communications technologies can play a fundamental role in making knowledge, information and education accessible and in supporting the development of new skills.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the right to education
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Education
Year
2016
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Other
Reference
SR Education, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/32/37, para. 27.
Paragraph number
27