As the Digital Agenda rightly identifies, improved digital literacy and ICT skills’ development will have a critical role to play in the drive to: invigorate the Romanian economy, nurture an innovative workforce, and to minimise the digital divide, and will be integral to the success of the policy of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.
As the leading international digital skills certification authority, ECDL Foundation and its pan-European network of national operators have affirmed our commitment to the goals of the Digital Agenda, and have pledged to support its implementation. At a European level, we have committed to:
· Engage with 5,000,000 citizens to ensure they have the opportunity to acquire digital skills and competence
· Decrease by 3% the current number of 150 million people who do not have the skills to use the Internet, and promote the use of e-government services and the benefits of e-commerce to these future e-citizens
· Promote digital skills development programmes in all levels of education throughout
· Take special measures to ensure that marginalised groups such as the unemployed, older people, people with disabilities and those in remote locations are empowered to participate in the Information Society
· Work with Member States in the development of long-term digital literacy policies, using certification as a measureable outcome in the return on investment in digital skills programmes, and ensuring that ICT skills are incorporated in national education policies.
ECDL Foundation has recently launched a comprehensive campaign designed to raise the profile of the Digital Agenda, and to pledge its considerable expertise, and that of its extensive network of pan-European in-country operators to ensure the successful implementation of the above goals which support the aims of the Digital Agenda.
As the ECDL Foundation national operator in
About ECDL Foundation
ECDL Foundation is the certifying authority for the leading international computer skills certification programme - ECDL / ICDL. ECDL Foundation's mission is to enable proficient use of ICT that empowers individuals, organisations and society, through the development, promotion, and delivery of quality certification programmes throughout the world. Known as ICDL outside of
Read ECDL Foundation's open letter to President Barroso in support of the Digital Agenda
