 Okay, I'm going to start. Welcome everybody. Thank you for coming back. This is our last session, it's the closing session. And we are very happy to see you. It's been a very long three days. And we've been all over the world and through all the topics. And it's been quite intense. And I'd really like to thank you for staying through these conversations and being part of them as much as your schedule permitted you. We greatly appreciated your inputs. I'm just going to do my first slide that I do before each one. And I'm going to put myself in French and I'm going to speak into the microphone because I'll be recording the French version. Okay, so I think by now you know how the system works. You know that the chat doesn't really work. We don't need the chat for the question and answer. We'd like you to raise your hand if you'd like the floor. There's interpretation in English and French. If you don't turn it on, you just have to read it. You'll hear what's the language of the person who's speaking no matter what language it is. And, well, this is the last session, but the same code in principle and in theory works for all the sessions. But sometimes the one code works for that's become a very complicated manner. But there's one code for each one of the whole workshop. Go on to the next thing. I'll come back again and you'll understand. Can I go to the next slide, please? Thank you. Again, I'd like to go back to the objectives because I think it's really important for us to look at these objectives and see how far we've come. We came into the workshop three days ago, what seems like a lifetime ago, but it was really only three days ago or two days ago. And it had two objectives. The first objective was to clarify the priority areas of action per working group. So this was to drill down to what can we start working on that's really important and that we can work together on based on the outputs of two previous consultations, the dynamic coalition launch and the survey. The second point that we wanted to look at, and this was done in each of the workshops, and it is transversal actually, was what are the parameters of an electronic tool that could be developed to support collaboration within public information about and basically activities of the dynamic coalition. So we've looked at these questions in each of the workshops. And I think we've advanced quite a bit. We've had over 10 presentations by the working group chairs and we've had hundreds of interventions by the participants and you, the participants, you represent the dynamic coalition. You are a very diverse group and we're very fortunate that we had such a large participation and this made the debate much richer. It is particularly happy that it's this group represented, of course, very, I think, equitable level. The participants came from all UNESCO regions and I think the fact that we had a discussion in the morning and the afternoon, we brought together different groups from different time zones too. And our discussion was truly global. I recognize there were technical challenges. We had them, we had, everybody had those, as far as I can tell. And we'd like to thank all the participants who experienced these challenges for their patience. We have tried to fix everything as quickly as we can and we have signaled it to our technical people and we hope that this will be, the big problems will be solved next time we do such an event. But we have tried our best to overcome these difficulties. Of course, this has been a long way forward since we started this discussion on the second of March. I think some of you remember we started the discussion on a technical platform that didn't exist at all. So this is quite a leap forward. The format of this discussion, however, suggests it's more inclusive than it would have been under circumstances where we would have been face to face. Had we been face to face, we would have limited the participation and voices to those that could travel. It comes down to visa issues, passport issues, costs, personal circumstances, and it wouldn't have been open to all in spite of our best efforts because of these restrictions that I've mentioned. And this would have been unacceptable, actually, because the voices of all our participants are very, very important. And it's important that we are able to have a form in which we can really exchange globally. We have, as you can see, the slide that's up there, I don't know if anyone's done the math, but all of this, the UNESCO we are recommendation was adopted eight months ago in November at the three month point, which is a very critical point in most gestation. We had the launch of the dynamic coalition. And it was also the beginning of the COVID crisis. And the pandemic globally, it was I think just the global pandemic was declared a couple of about a week before our meeting was scheduled and we kept going and we held it. And I think it gave us a momentum to focus on the work and we were able to come up with a report that was very comprehensive on what are the areas that can be addressed by a group, an international coalition to support UNESCO member states in the implementation of this recommendation. In July at the beginning of this month for 10 days, we had an online survey. And the survey asked you to look again at the conclusions and to give your opinion on what would be the areas that we should focus on to start with. And during this time, so we're now at the eight month period. At the end of the seven month beginning of the eight month, basically, if you like, the third trimester, and the survey was done. It was during the holiday period, we had about three inputs. We had over a hundred participants in the dynamic call of Chamon. She went off the month. We had some 30. We haven't done the math yet for the online consultation because we have to sort through the the lists of participants and also to deal with the fact that many people have had the same name. So we have screenshots of the participants and we also have the links that we have to make some sort of effective work to understand who is actually here. But we have had at least 30 to 40 people. This one we have 18, but the normal amount we had about 30 people in each of the discussions. And they were different people. And during this time, over the five, six sessions that we had, we went through and we drilled down further on the two points that I mentioned. So we're at the end of the eight. And we're going forward. And the next steps will be to launch activities from September, taking into account the inputs from the consultation. And we will keep you posted on that after the coming months. Now, can I go to the next slide, please? There is an evaluation form for this. I'll send it through the link to you for the evaluation. There's a Google form. We'd like to have your feedback on this by Monday, Monday, actually by Sunday, if possible, so that we can have we can incorporate it into the report. I will send this out by email. And to the list that I've been sending information out about it, if this consultation started, if by chance you have not received messages about the following day ever since this started, could you please send a message to either me? Could you please change this? Could go to the next slide there. If you don't receive my emails, and you haven't received any emails from me, could you kindly send a message? I can't, you can't change the slide now, but you can perhaps also send a message to Neil to say that you have not received messages and I would get it. The videos of the consultations are available at the address on the screen on the side, which was also sent last night to you by email. And this OER Africa has kindly agreed to put the videos of the different sessions online so that you can listen to them if you are unable to participate for whatever reason, and or if you want to hear it one more time. They will have a draft report that's circulating for comments between the 3rd and 5th of August and a final report by the 7th of August. We'd like you to send your inputs by tonight 27 July, which is no, we'd like you to see us. That's right. We'd like you to send your comments to the videos that you may have by Monday night, basically midnight CET. And if you could send it to Neil at the address there and put in the subject of your message, the working group to which your comments pertain. And so with that, I give you the last steps and I'd like to give the floor to our transversal chairs. So to first to Mecha, I'm sorry, first to Gasper, who represents the National Commissions. And so I give the floor to you, Gasper. Thank you, Zeynep. Yes, we hear you. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much for your for your words and this opening of the closing plenary. However, myself, I was not able to follow the consultations throughout the week. But as I have understood, I'm also in my personal capacity, very happy because of the, because of the rich participation from all regions in the world and from different stakeholder groups. And I wanted to just from the point of view, from a from from my position in the in the working group on, it's called National Commissions for UNESCO. But I wanted to stress to all of you a little issue because I think for my in my view, it's of utmost importance that we keep in mind what the purpose and the framework of this dynamic coalition is. I mean, from the first point of view is, I mean, the recommendation was adopted by an intergovernmental organization by UNESCO. So it was adopted by UNESCO member states. This is governments. Of course, as you most of you were involved in the in the overall four year process and consultation process for the preparation of the of the recommendation. And we have seen how it did work and how UNESCO itself opened up its its way of work in order to include in order to include all parts of stakeholders from all fields of interest. So from governments to institutions from single experts, etc. And as we know, the objective, the objective of of the recommendation, and then of course, of the dynamic coalition is to somehow support governments because the recommendation itself, it addresses governments and to support governments to implement because it's on the side of the governments to implement the recommendation itself. And this is this is very important to stress. So we have here partners in this dynamic coalition that are at the same level. So it's from governments to institutions to single experts and to chairs, etc. etc. And I think it's important to to to tell to to say that. And so that we can see that this is a I mean, the coalition itself is a somehow, I don't know, a partnership among partners which are at the same level. So the dynamic coalition should not be, I don't know, somehow a service point for, I mean, governments or the other way around. But as I will try to to to present also during the work of my transversal working group on national commissions, because national commissions for UNESCO are in a very premier position in order to connect and to contact the respective ministries which are responsible in the respective countries and member states for the implementation of UNESCO's programs and policies in general, but of course, also for the implementation of the OER recommendation. So here, I will try not to gather only those countries and national commissions who who are who who proved to be the most active and interested in the implementation in the overall process. But I will try also to promote this to to invite more, more national commissions and more governments to be part of of the of the dynamic coalition. I think that that for this reason, all activities that we do in the framework of the dynamic coalition need to somehow ensure that they foresee supporting governments as main stakeholders, and at the same time as partners in the implementation process. I think this is important to stress and so much from from my point of view, I will try to stay here with you now until the end, if if we could probably still have a discussion on this. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Gershper, with that, I'd like to give the floor to me, who is the chair for AI and new technologies. So thank you, Zainab. Hi, also I was listening here and they're not all the time, but I was present in some of the some of the sessions and I've heard some of the comments that that there were raised in relation to to frontier technologies. It's not of course just AI when we say frontier technologies, but certainly what there was listening to you was more or less talking about the two issues, two important issues. So one is automatic translation so AI can fit in. And the other one was about the cybersecurity. So those are certainly two points where AI is making quite a large progress. But it's not the only thing. So what I wanted to stress at the beginning is that if you look at the complete ecosystem of OER is not just about the presentation. It's about a lot of things that AI can help on one side the creators and on the other side the users of OER. So so let's say teachers and on the other side students. So what I was what we are we are we see we think that one of the major problem is essentially the the this disparity of this version of different OER across the globe. So there is no there is no single point of entry right now that you could find that you could get to to a large collection of everything what is going on in the globe on OER. This is number one and number two. Of course there are not there are no tools available yet that this would be made simple. So if you are the creator of a teacher of let's say the the applicant that we are having on the in the others program which is open occasion for a better world we see is this is the issue the issue of how to how to get proper content how to get the proper services and how to use them then later on to prepare something which would be a valuable a valuable service. So it's you know one of the most important thing actually is using AI to collect this information to collect all this content to collect OER and services across the globe making them in present them in a structured way because as it is today you would need to spend quite a lot of time in order to find out the proper content now and of course this includes as well the automatic illustration but this is just one point of of this processing of OER. So it's important so AI is not just just about those two things that there was discussion about. So it's a little bit more and I think that putting AI in in a in a service to support on one side the ones who are creating OER and on the other side to the ones who are using OER for learning those are the two main things that AI can bring in. Now about the cybersecurity cybersecurity is somehow inherent in the services already because you know if there is a if you have a repository of of any type of let's say learning service and this repository sits on a well developed well developed cloud service then cybersecurity is somehow inherent in that. Of course the other completely different issue is when you are dealing with something which would be a home main service and a home main application and and I like so cybersecurity is a is a national issue as well. So a national issue would mean that even the the most developed countries are not really dealing well with the cybersecurity. So the issue about using then the AI to solve this solve this the problem of the cybersecurity is more about on the national level which goes not only into the education but as well to the other services which are supported on on the on the globe. So here I think that it is an issue it is an important issue. I was answering one of the questions at the at the at the beginning which was about the cybersecurity saying that if you look at the OER as itself and you don't you just look at the content and services so without learning analytics without gathering information about the usage and the users then the cybersecurity for OER goes into the level of let's say fake news or fake content or the content which is not properly properly presented. Those are the things then that can fit into the several quality criterias that we are trying to develop in order to provide to a user at the end of the day quality content. So there are several levels several aspects of cybersecurity as well but what I wanted to say is again the how to make the use reuse creation of OER simplified easy to use so in order in some kind of a let's say semi-automatic way of how to construct a the learning course for a particular subject for a particular day in close to real time. Those are the things that AI can certainly help. I was telling you I was showing you already the tools that are on disposal just from the ones we are aware of there are many others as well so this is not something which is a researcher development is something which is a commodity already so it's just about picking these things and putting that into practice to solve one of several of the issues which are very relevant now for the for the OER adoption. So this is the end of just briefly my observation. Thank you very much Nietzsche. Could I now give the floor to Lexi? I think you have a PPT also. I say no thank you very much. Okay so I just have a few slides here and I'll speak fairly briefly about monitoring. So I raised this in the opening plenary as well. We're still in the very early stages as Zaynab noted as well in terms of the objectives of these sessions. We're really trying to drill down and identify priority activities. So at this stage there were a few points that did emerge that although not explicitly related to monitoring I think have implications moving forward so I will speak to those. Perfect. Yeah so first of all one of the things that I noted was discussions were beginning to look at these potential outputs. As I mentioned in the opening plenary session around monitoring you know it's really important moving forward that we think through the results chain of these activities. So what is the objective the overall objective or the outcome how do the activities and outputs lead towards that. So that was really starting to emerge in some of these discussions that linkage between the possible outputs as well as the higher level outcomes. And while certain discussions did center around specific outputs such as tools or policies or capacity building programs I think there was also discussion that was beginning to emerge about how these outputs would lead to the mainstreaming of OER in a more sustainable way and the impact of this on key stakeholders. So that results chain which is starting to emerge I think will be very important as we move forward and begin to think through monitoring in a more specific way. The second point that I think again not explicitly but indirectly is linked to monitoring were the discussions around research. So in the opening plenary session again I mentioned you know three of the essential purposes of monitoring and the third was that it can inform research. So I participated in two out of the four thematic working group sessions and in those sessions as well as in the videos and materials that I reviewed from the other two they all touched on research. So research was framed in these discussions as being you know very essential for our advocacy efforts and in terms of creating demand for OER or demand for support for OER by providing evidence for sustainability cost effectiveness impact on teaching and learning. So in general research was framed in that way in these discussions as being very important to the efforts going forward. The participants in the sessions at least that I was involved in generated numerous ideas for research topics related to the themes. So there was a lot of different ideas about some of these areas that we might need to delve into. There was also some discussion about how previous research and monitoring had actually influenced continuous improvement and led to implementation of further recommendations and interventions. So I think the the linkage between these research topics that are starting to emerge and the output and outcome indicators that had been generated in earlier consultations was quite evident. So a lot of the topics that were discussed in terms of research are really related to outcomes and impact. What is the impact of OER? So I think moving forward it will be really helpful to think of monitoring activities in terms of action research and this was raised actually in the working group for this idea of action research so that we're not just monitoring progress for reporting function but it's also you know collecting this data that can inform more in-depth research that can be used for advocacy efforts moving forward. And then lastly one of the topics I think common to the working group discussions which as Zenef noted is a transversal question across those working groups was on the requirements for a tool or platform for information sharing which was and collaboration sorry which was mentioned earlier. So again all of the groups touched on this and not directly related to monitoring but it brought up some ideas of how this tool could be used for that purpose as well. So you know we've noted that the the main purpose would be to facilitate communication as well as foster collaboration. But I think also this is going to be a very rich resource of data in terms of what is happening and it was also mentioned to that in a few of the working groups that this tool could really help to share good practice challenges so it would provide really rich qualitative data as well in terms of not just what's working but also what's not working and that feeds into that monitoring evaluation and learning cycle so how do we take the information about what we're doing and really use that to inform and improve our interventions. So I think this is something to keep in mind as we we begin to develop this tool in more concrete terms just to think through how it could be leveraged or how we can draw information from it not only just for communication and information sharing but also as a source of data for tracking our progress. Yeah so I think those are my main observations about the the implications of these recent discussions in terms of monitoring and I just want to say overall it was a very engaging and productive series of consultations, a really diverse group and a lot of interesting ideas and examples were shared so it was a you know enjoyable experience and looking forward to continue working with everyone for this. Thank you. Thank you very much Alexi we greatly appreciate your inputs and your your clarifications on how the important role that monitoring will have will be voted. It's interesting that you bring up the point of action reach search which is an interesting point that came up in the discussions. With that I'd like to open the floor to any questions you may have or comments and we have some time so please feel free. There are no so far there's nothing in the question answer box. Are there any points any last statements anybody would like to make? I'm looking for raised hands. I think maybe everyone's very tired after a very long week. Three days it's only been three days it's not a big question response okay find okay well with that I would like to invite you to please fill out the evaluation form and let us know how you what you found worked what you think we could work on to improve the next time and this is the first time that we have done a consultation of three days with six sessions in two languages in multiple time zones and we'd like to this consultation nothing would have been possible without the support of the entire advisory group. Everybody was mobilized and we worked very hard and thanks to everyone's efforts we made all this together. I'd like to particularly thank Neil for stepping in with OER Africa to support the the work in a very intense manner and greatly appreciate that I'm able to use the videos quickly on OER Africa and the work that he and Movini have done in participating in and really in moderating a number of the sessions if not all almost and we I think we have had a chance to have some very rich discussions which I have not seen often in the past. I'd just like to mention one thing that I was thinking of recently when I was thinking about this week I think some of you would hear but in about 2009 I was working with the common on a project that was called Baking OER out of the OER community and basically at the time we were talking and we were going basically the world tour in which we spoke about it was with Sir John Daniel and we spoke about what OER is and what's happening and how it can be used in different communities in different contexts and it was the beginning of a discussion. Now we're more than 10 years past there's a recommendation there is a global community and there's a very active global community with a very diverse voice and we're having this discussion today online with interpretation over the time zones and we're able to move forward even more so this would have been unimaginable maybe so this was unimaginable more than 10 years ago I can't even imagine what is possible even with development of the technology and the recognition that OER has had globally since that time so this is a very important work that we're part of and that you're part of and you're in your context so I do really look forward to the to the follow-up it's just the beginning we're only at the eighth month so it's the end of maybe the gestation period but it's definitely the beginning something very diverse and very exciting I'd like to thank also Olivia who's our colleague in the in the communication information sector and of course the interpreters who have had to deal with all our microphones all our different microphones are different problems of connection made it possible for us to be able to communicate in two languages and that is a very big step forward from even three months ago where we were and I'd also like to thank very much Alex Tissier who's the technician you see him on the list on the screen at Tissier he's he's been helping us trying to fix problems as it comes along and we have in the background we had Alex Alexandra Oakley and Valerie Chaunot who were also putting in place everything and making it possible there was a lot of hands behind the scene trying to make sure everything worked and so there is this would not have been possible and I have a so this is this is what's I want to make sure that we can express our thanks to all these colleagues properly thank you very much I have two comments here I'm going to read them out interpreted okay we're green congratulations to the entire team with global effort to help governments of the UNESCO OER recommendation is a historic opportunity creative comments stands ready and is eager to support these thank you great and we look forward to working together with you Igor's comment are the working groups continue engaging at help us once the final reports have been circulated how is it going to well it's going to work the way I did in my presentation you will we'll send the final report to you we're going to send you we'll ask for your inputs by Monday afternoon on Monday evening midnight which is the 27th of july I believe by email to you on the sessions if you have any and especially if you're going to go listen to them again or for the first time online we'd also like to ask for your inputs to the value we will circulate a draft report the next Monday 30th of August for inputs by the Wednesday the 5th of August and a final report will be available from the 7th of August launch activities from September taking into account the inputs from this consultation and so there's another so thank you very much and what's this are the working ones okay are there any comments or hands or anything for the moment for the month of August afterwards I hope that everybody gets a break I think July has been quite intense and we don't know what September is going to bring in terms of everything else on the planet so we do hope that people will get a chance to get a bit of a vacation in August are there any other comments with that then would anyone else in the panel like to take the floor I wanted to say if I may say that many many thanks to you and of course your team and and everybody who supported you in this efforts from my side and of course sincere thanks to everybody who attended and who is with us that's all thank you gosh thank you very much okay so um I think with that we are we're ready to end this long adventure that we've had over three three days and we will be getting back in touch with you for the next steps and first of all with the formal report and then the launch of activities in September and we'll continue posted as developed further thank you very much I'm wishing you a very pleasant weekend and a nice day or nice afternoon depending on where you are waiting there's more there is a statement input from Fatima and Housini thank you all we said the treaties thank you Zana for all of your efforts and Zana's work through it during this time not that we had expected but a little bit but incredibly valuable that Igor says thank you all stay safe and take care I think that goes that's a very important comment right I hope everyone does and Rania says thank you so much for this fruitful meeting I'm glad to be part of the tea of the people participating that's it with Zana Morales thank you and then what's that thank you all looking forward to our work together we're also looking forward to our work with all of you and we're wishing you also pleased to take very good care of yourselves and your loved ones stay safe and we look forward to continuing our collaboration together worder Zana thank you apologies for access and convenience as best wishes to all keep safe Alejandro Mexico secretary to public education will be sharing analysis of the survey results it's constituting the element for roadmap within the ministries I did assist in the results I will resend the results of the survey and they were sent the first evening but I'll resend thank you very much I will close the session now and I wish everyone a very nice evening and continue as soon as possible thank you bye bye bye thank you