The Qingdao Declaration is a document that provides UN Member States with policy recommendations for harnessing the power of ICT to address current educational challenges, and to ensure equitable quality education and lifelong opportunities for all. It was the key output of the International Conference on ICT and Post-2015 Education, which took place 23–25 May 2015 in Qingdao, People's Republic of China. The conference was organized by UNESCO, the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO."
It includes following section on OER:
"Open Educational Resources (OERs) provide education stakeholders with opportunities to improve the quality of, and expand access to, textbooks and other forms of learning content, to catalyze the innovative use of content, and to foster knowledge creation. We commit to developing sector-wide strategies and capacity building programmes to fully realize the potential of OERs to expand access to lifelong learning opportunitie sand achieve quality education.
We recommend that stakeholders facilitate access to Open Access (OA) Journals in Education for teachers, researchers and learners, and fully evaluate the potential of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and Open Standards for the development of ICT solutions, including for learners with disabilities and for promoting learning in the first language."
