Digital Education Strategy

Too many children around the world are missing out on their basic right to education. UNICEF’s Digital Education Strategy 2025–2030 aims to address the global learning crisis and harness technology to accelerate results in education. It focuses on equitable, scalable and evidence-based solutions to ensure every child has access to quality learning, regardless of location, gender or ability.   

Changing the narrative towards innovation and impact. Digital education holds great potential in addressing these challenges. When designed and deployed safely and intentionally, digital education solutions can accelerate learning, especially for the most marginalized children and young people. UNICEF will lead a paradigm shift from fragmented digital learning pilots to coordinated, strategic interventions – moving beyond “digital as usual” to ensure approaches add real value by breaking down barriers and accelerating learning, rather than replicating traditional pedagogy with a digital layer.

Making smarter, systems-oriented investments in digital education. Each year, billions are lost to misaligned EdTech investments. UNICEF will act as a positive disruptor by accelerating evidence-based, adaptive, collaborative solutions that harness the latest technologies while ensuring they are scalable and grounded in local realities and learner needs – whether through offline, low-tech, or fully digital options, tackling persistent digital divides shaped by gender, disability and language. 

Partnering to scale evidence-backed solutions. Working through innovation, partnership, and strategic support, UNICEF fosters national ownership by co-developing bold yet practical visions for the future of learning, grounded in systems thinking and long-term change management. By helping countries integrate and scale human-centred digital education innovations, UNICEF strengthens education systems so that every child is better prepared for today’s world and the futures they deserve. 

Closing the learning gaps for those most often left out. For every child without access to education—whether due to disability, displacement, disruption or denial of access—UNICEF turns digital innovation into a lifeline for learning. UNICEF harnesses digital solutions to support children who are not otherwise reached by formal education, including those learning in non-formal education spaces and those children who are out of school entirely.