WISE, an initiative of Qatar Foundation (QF), has become a global platform for finding solutions for the challenges posed to the education sector. The world now looks up to the WISE as it has become a platform for the development of new ideas and solutions. The world is in need of more such innovative initiatives as humanity is faced with multiple challenges.
H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of QF, yesterday opened the session of the eighth World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha, where she stressed on the importance to address various education challenges in a post-truth world. This high profile event is seeing attendance of more than 2,000 politicians, academics, policymakers, businesspersons and students from around the globe. The biennial global summit is being held under the theme ‘Co-Exist, Co-Create: Learning to Live and Work Together,’. The theme is very timely and appropriate given the situation around the world.
The audiences got opportunity to listen to enlightening discussions as experts discussed how today’s post-fact and fake news environment has caught people in a struggle around ideology, emotion and objective research. The audience also got to know that how education should respond to the challenges of the post truth world. WISE 2017 includes around 50 sessions focused on education in a post-truth world, with sessions focusing on media literacy, artificial intelligence and virtual reality, social entrepreneurship, design thinking and direction for best education choices, among others.
One of the highlights of the summit was the announcement of the 2017 WISE Prize for Education Laureate. The WISE Prize for Education is the first distinction of its kind to recognise an individual or a team of up to six people for an outstanding, world-class contribution to education. The summit has become a much attractive global event as it provides an opportunity to meet the people behind pioneering international projects championed by WISE initiatives all year round.
WISE is now being imitated around the world as it has positively influenced the global education sector over the years by giving innovative solutions. QF, under the leadership of Chairperson, H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, established WISE, an international, multi-sectoral platform for creative thinking, debate and purposeful action in 2009. It has established itself as a global reference in new approaches to education.
WISE is a response to the necessity of revitalising education and providing a global platform for the development of new ideas and solutions. One of the most significant achievements of WISE initiative is that it has succeeded in putting education on the global agenda.
