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Digital Literacy: Skills for the Information Society
A digital world needs digital skills. And so do we.
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Information and communications technologies (ICTs) affect our lives every day - from interacting with our governments to working from home, from keeping in touch with our friends to accessing healthcare and education.
To participate and take advantage, citizens must be digitally literate - equipped with the skills to benefit from and participate in the Information Society. This includes both the ability to use new ICT tools and the media literacy skills to handle the flood of images, text and audiovisual content that constantly pour across the global networks.
Digital literacy is therefore one element in the i2010 Strategy's emphasis on Inclusion, better public services and quality of life. But this is not just about Inclusion - ICT-related skills are vital for the competitiveness and innovation capability of the European economy (see the Economy & Work theme)
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- i2010: access to digital skills is both an
e-inclusion and a public education issue, and so is addressed in
the
Inclusion, better public services and quality of life
pillar of i2010. See:
- the eInclusion theme for more on European e-inclusion policies and activities;
- the 2006 eLearning Conference website
- The European Commission is formulating a media literacy policy to empower Europe's citizens in a world surrounded by multimedia messages, and wants to encourage more women to pursue an IT career as a force for change and a major boost for the ICT sector.
- i2010: access to digital skills is both an
e-inclusion and a public education issue, and so is addressed in
the
Inclusion, better public services and quality of life
pillar of i2010. See:
- Relevant Activities
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Browse some relevant Example Projects or jump straight to the following sites:
- ICT Research: see the Research & Innovation theme for an introduction, and visit New Working Environments Research, covering research into new ICT-based working environments in the networked economy;
- The eLearning programme encourages the acquisition of new skills and knowledge that we all need for personal and professional development, and for active participation in an information-driven society.
- European Social Fund innovative actions explore new employment approaches including vocational training
- The Commission and the European Center for the Development of Vocational Training are examining e-skills for competitiveness, employability & workforce development;
- EU Social Science research investigates key societal questions on education, training and new forms of learning.
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From the Digital Literacy Newsroom and Library:
- Factsheet 12: An Information Society Open to All
- Factsheet 5: Bringing knowledge within reach
- Brochure: Information Society & Education (October 2006)
- Health and ageing in the knowledge society : Employment, social cohesion and e-health potential - 29 April 2006
- For the latest relevant news, publications and more from the Newsroom & Library, see right hand column, or select Education & Training when you subscribe to the Portal Newsroom Update;
Last Updated March 2007