During a bilateral meeting with the Rector and President of the University, Irina Bokova expressed deep appreciation for the translation and launch of UNESCO's flagship Information and Communication Technology Competency Framework for Teachers by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education in December 2011.

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Only 32 percent of the state information security officers responding to the Deloitte survey said their staffs had the required cyber security competency.

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With the more detailed, and objectively verifiable, information provided via improved badge technology, the employer can identify which applicant is better prepared in the discreet competency for which they are hiring.

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States need to create and support a system that is coherent from the definition of the standards to the assessments in place to measure competency on an as-needed basis and from the ability to reorganize staffing to the integrated student information and learning management systems built around this approach.

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