In 2017, the Education Program established a Working Group on Innovation and Technology in Education with the purpose of generating that vision and promoting it at a regional level.

The mission of the Working Group is to contribute to creating an ecosystem for educational innovation in which actors from the public and private sectors collaborate effectively to generate and scale up new innovations in education.

The Working Group’s specific objectives are:

• Generate ideas on how Latin American countries can utilize technologies to revamp teaching methods and improve educational management
• Facilitate knowledge-sharing among different countries and actors in the region
• Improve policies pertaining to educational innovation through strategic interactions with key actors in the region’s public education systems
• Promote collaboration among private-sector stakeholders, researchers, public-sector specialists, international cooperation agencies and others on matters of educational innovation