Digital Agenda: skills and inclusion Katarzyna Balucka-Debska ICT for Inclusion DG Information Society and Media

2 DAE - Pillar 6 “A Europe of opportunity where those that aspire are elevated and those in need are not neglected” (Barroso 2010) Enhancing digital literacy, skills and inclusion Key actions 10 & 11: Digital literacy and competences - priority for the European Social Fund Identify and recognise the competences of ICT practitioners and users Elevating Digital Competences to a horizontal policy to support the DAE and deliver where DC requires action

3 Digital Agenda for Europe Virtuous cycle of the digitally enabled economy

4 ActiveIndependentEmployedEducatedInnovating DAE

5 Digital skills From basic digital literacy to advanced digital competencies Not to learn ICT but to do things Lifecycle - education, work, social life “So can you read and write?” (digital literacy) Are you confident and critical user of ICT – for work, leisure, communication and learning (digital competence) Advanced e-skills in specific professional environments (e-Skills and beyond)

6 eLearning Twofold impact: An enabler and multiplier - for learning Transforming learning experience (adapted to needs, any time any where…) “Are you using your new textbook yet?” A Vision Better education for all, through ICT-based innovation in teaching and learning Pervasive access to eLearning resources for work, education and leisure Effective support to individuals and ‘service providers’ facing particular learning needs

7 Target groups and actions

8 Pillar 6 strategy flexible framework to support and build on the activities on the ground support to stakeholders involvement and proactivity target groups/sectors to be reached define the roles of the Member States and other relevant actors. gathers specific actions to be implemented over the next months to put coherence into multitude of activity strands

9 Examples DAE ‘Big idea’ Multi-stakeholder platform for digital literacy and e-Inclusion Cooperation, exchange & awareness raising Contact: Alexa Joyce, European Schoolnet Get online week 2010 and 2011

10 Telecentre-Europe - Get Online Day, 4 March 2010 To bring people online, targeting mainly the offline Europeans More than 50,000 people reached on the day itself 68,253 people during EC eSkills Week 2010 in 42 European countries A pan-European campaign supported by national partners, NGOs, telecentres, libraries, schools, information access points

11 Conclusion ICT a (r)evolution tool which both has the power to remove barriers it creates and become an empowerment tool – ‘right conditions’ The EC to operationalise Pillar 6 strategy to bring coherence and realise synergies from the many strands of activity on the ground and in the Commission policies, programmes and instruments