摘要
Education for Sustainable Development(ESD)is the field of knowledge,skills,values to address interconnected global challenges including climate change,loss of biodiversity,unsustainable use of resources,and inequality.Higher education institutions have an essential role in sustainability.This is the key in the education of future leaders who will contribute to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs).The higher education institutions can find the solution about how education,research,and professional practice can strengthen each other to provide for high-level professionalism to build up the student’s skill for communication and collaboration,creativity and critical thinking,digital literacies,intercultural competence.Innovation helps to understand the forms of socioeconomics by developing technological products and processes.Innovation is the key enabler of most of the SDG goals.Information and Communication Technologies(ICTs)have the potential to increase innovation.ICT is capable of strengthening the means of implementation for the SDGs by fostering international cooperation.Information and Communication Technologies influence growth of economies and facilitate innovation,and have a direct impact on growth and competitiveness.According to the World Bank,the digital economy makes up more than 15%of the global GDP and has grown 2.5 times faster over the previous 10 years than the GDP of the physical world.Sustainable growth means maintaining the growth rate without causing other economic problems.“Digital Bangladesh:Vision 2021”was declared by the government of Bangladesh on December 12,2008.The government has implemented a large number of projects relating to digital technologies and a number of these are already underway to develop the country as middle-income status by 2021 and developed status by 2041.On Dec.12,2022 the honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh announced“Smart Bangladesh”by 2041.Smart Bangladesh is to mean the power of technology and innovation to improve the quality of life,enhance economic growth,and protect the environment.Digital Bangladesh and Smart Bangladesh are two different concepts with different objectives and implications.After an evaluation of Digital Bangladesh,Smart Bangladesh is a step further by using emerging technologies to create a smarter and sustainable society.SMART stands for Specific,Measurable,Achievable,Realistic,and Timely.The goals of Smart Bangladesh must incorporate all of these criteria to achieve by 2041.Higher education institutions can set the clear goals as the basis of building a vision or mission statement,as well as short-term and long-term action plans to achieve Smart Bangladesh.This paper examines an observational methodology and evaluation to find a solution about how ICTs in higher education can be used to develop course material,delivering content and sharing content,communication between learners,teachers,and the outside world.This will build up the teachers and learners’ability to lead with purpose,communicate and prove value,analyze and use data,and maintain a big-picture mindset for a Smart Bangladesh and SDGs.
