First and foremost, are there any key leadership messages you want to get out to our readership?

I work for the Planning Commission at the Government of Pakistan and we are really having to think outside the box in dealing with COVID-19, but, somehow, this pandemic has provided us with an opportunity to shift the focus to where the priorities should have been all along. For example, I look after the education portfolio at the Planning Commission at the national level. Before the pandemic, we had been asked to be innovative in our approach, but there was little innovation in the way we were running things. When COVID-19 hit and the educational institutions got closed, we were worried about all the children out of school and the disruption to their education. However, what we saw was all the interventions brought in to address this, like tele-education. We have a television channel now in Pakistan, ‘Teleschool’,1 which children are ‘attending’ because not all schools and children have online access. It makes me think how great this is for addressing the digital divide. How can we better use technology for bringing in innovative modes of education? We are not only enhancing access, but also equity of access, as now …