Overview
Despite lacking a solid resource base and as the result of a decade of continuous development and efforts by the CI Sector, UNESCO has become the lead agency supporting countries to harness MIL as the most adequate long-term tool to address and empower citizens and institutions in the twenty-first century knowledge society. UNESCO currently holds the global intellectual lead in the MIL arena. However, other multilateral organisations and corporations are currently prominent with regard to implementation establishing the risk that the focus might deviate to other conceptual meanings and interests than those promoted by UNESCO. This evaluation offers an in-depth assessment of UNESCO’s work in the thematic area of MIL over the last three biennia (2014-2019), providing an overview of the main deployments, achievements and challenges, enablers and bottlenecks that have characterised the area of work within an interdisciplinary perspective, as well as a set of evidence based findings, conclusions and recommendations for the way forward