Our education community of learners, teachers, leaders, managers, providers, researchers, policymakers, together with the business community and other stakeholders, are all, and without any exception, here and elsewhere, in a dire learning-teaching, managing, and decision-making situation with the crisis from the COVID-19 pandemic. This abstract provides a brief from the Reaching Out ALL (ROA) initiative which maps the extent to which the needs and implications of Distance Education and Digital solutions may, with and without success, address COVID-19 impacts on education, locally, institutionally, nationally, and globally. COVID-19’s divide is of great concern for the successful and effective implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and SDGs No.4, Quality Education, in particular. Educational actions reaching down the everyday learning-teaching contexts and conditions locally, nationally, and globally cannot be treated in the total absence and isolation of the direct voices and concerns, i.e., from those actual beneficiaries, partners, and targeted audience of our educational sector, from primary/basic up to the higher/university levels. This is the uniqueness of this present and ongoing global online survey. Its very purpose is in gathering the most updated and relevant empirical information and data on the impact of COVID-19 on education with a view to mapping the urgent and pressing needs for distance education and digital solutions. Can COVID-19 create new possibilities to mitigate the Divide in education, or does it just the contrary? Let us get from the direct voices. Mapping the improvements and/or shortcomings both prior to, and during COVID-19, on the access and quality of education offered, will assist the educational community in their choice of the most effective distance education and digital solutions The ROA initiative, which is introduced above, is based upon the collection, analysis and interpretation of data and information from an ongoing 3–5-minute Global Online Survey (GOS) on COVID-19 Impacts on Education. GOS was first launched in January 2021 worldwide, and will end by the end of April 2021 in several languages, namely English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Arabic, Tigrinya, Bulgarian, and many other languages. The GOS survey is carried out by Stockholm University, Sweden, and its international partners. Distance education and digital solutions alone, can neither be of quality nor be effective, if the direct voices of the education community (learners, teachers, managers, researchers’ policymakers, providers, and parents, and so on) are neither heard and nor put into implementation. The COVID-19 Global Online Survey is an important, if not, a most vital initiative to reach this goal making education equally accessible, inclusive with quality, and sustainable through empirical evidence for relevant and appropriate informed decision-making and implementation.