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European Economic and Social
Committee
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“Digital Europe:Digital Europe: inclusion of ageing population”
EU JAPAN EESC GR I Conference 15th March 2012
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EU – JAPAN EESC GR I Conference - 15th March 2012Laure BATUT, Conseiller, GR II Member
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From 2010 to 2050, aged people of 65 Y and more aresupposed to raise from 87 millions to 148 millions in EU.
And the working population will shrink after 2018 (Eurostat).
For historical reasons there is no common european systemFor historical reasons there is no common european systemto take care of elderly people;
each Member state has its own.
Becoming old is a chance for generations when livingconditions are guaranted by efficient social protectionsystems.
Women entered massively labour market in EU during 70ies.y gThey live longer than men, but as they are less paid
and / or less qualified => they have the lowest pensions .
In EU, poverty is first women poverty, in the old age too.
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What is « Active Ageing » ? It needs of a holistic approach
• No global definition in EU of ‘older worker’
• Active: not not only salaried work; should mainly make people realize empowerment, welfare potential, and participation to social life
• By developping learning, life long learning,
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y pp g g, g g,adapted working conditions
• & Bringing protection, security and health care.
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Different times in « seniority » Not linear timesNot to be seen as boxes or categories
Not necessarely waterproof to each other
With different abilities and needs :With different abilities and needs :
‐ Active seniors: to act and transfer knowledge ‐ Inactive seniors: to contribute
and help ( e.g. children & gran’children) ‐ Dependent seniors: to be helped.
h i ifi b C ld b f d
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To each time a specific answer by TIC could be found
after fullfilling pre‐requisite conditions .
• Infrastructures have to be completely achieved everywhere to give people chances to access easily to TIC
(broad band, very speed wifi…)
• Accessibility to hard‐ and soft‐ ware has to be organized to give seniors possibilities to use easily TIC : concepts andgive seniors possibilities to use easily TIC : concepts and fabrication standards, import contracts clauses, etc…
•Building the trust in using TIC by :
* affordability and costs well defined and supplied by public action to every public including seniors;
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action to every public, including seniors;
* security and guaranted rights for users;
* private data protection provided;
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• Access for all to inclusive e‐education in all schools
‐ which prepares the tomorrow e‐inclusion :
° since the pre‐school agesince the pre school age
° without any discrimination
° including teaching of parents and of teachers themselves
° using digital items when learning at school
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‐ with dedicated courses for elderly people( e.g. adapted teachings through « serious games » …).
• Employment opportunities (continued work) foran ageing workforce requires:
new thinking at school, at companies, at society,at retired workers themselves
• Good to prepare it along the whole career, byand open life course approach
• Taking account that careers are no morelinear; aged people fired or MR will have few
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chances now to find an “older worker job”especially in crisis context.
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1 ) TIC could empowered active ageing seniorsto continue working :
‐ To look for a job ; to continue or try telework; ‐ To improve skills
( )‐ To do the job ( alleviate physical and mental constraints)‐ To better conciliate work and family…‐ etc…
Being aware of barriers as:
‐ The lack of basic education and skillsAfter leaving the work place: no more fruitfull environment
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‐ After leaving the work place: no more fruitfull environment for TIC (no more TIC specialists; no more help from colleagues)
=> difficulties to update alone.
Skills & competences
• During the working life :
‐ All workers need to learn TIC at work place;
‐ All digital skills could be kept in a repository of learnings todefine, by vocational sectors, useful elements for qualifyingcertifications, in order to:
*be more recognized & more paid,
*and be able to update, after MR for instance.
It could be put down on a ‘digital passport’ possibly required laterto be hired or to create a company
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to be hired or to create a company.
• After the working life also, as seniors feel not easy till now with TIC (see figure below), begin or continue TIC learning :
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‐Transfering knowledge:
‐ Skilled workers at the end of their working life have built a capital of know‐how that could remain inside companies.
‐ Young workers are supposed to work with digital.
‐ Transfering knowledge could be by both ways old to young and young to old,
and better if the oldest is able to work on digital.
S lif l l i d h h
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‐ So lifelong learning and e‐competences are here shown as necessary to survive, helping to continue working
or to find another job when aged.
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‐ Remembering:
Women have less linear careers than others andWomen have less linear careers than others andsuffer more than men from lack of skills anddigital competences
At the end of their life,they are more numereous & less paid
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So, it is more difficult for them to keep e‐included,due to lack of skills, of financial means,
and also of self‐confidence in technics.
2) TIC could maintain ‘inactive’ aged people included
• Inactive as Active aged people are economic & socialproviders of resources for companies and states :the ‘silver economy’ goes through internet , automats,etc… and requires digital competencies to continue to bean included active economic actor.
• Trust in ‘dematerialized’ transactions: only when safetyconditions are gathered.
• Keeping in touch with TIC: maintaining social links,i ll ith f il d l l t l i f
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especially with family, and local actors, learning fromyounguest, recovering empowerment (inter‐generationstransfert of knowledge; fight against isolation).
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• To Work as ‘Inactive’: means not ‘salaried’, and not as not active.
• For those aged people , all the items relevant for active are also relevant here Some of them just begin with computersalso relevant here. Some of them just begin with computers and need support from locals, volunteers or territorial authorities : proximity and contact are crucial.
• All the volunteers are also included in e‐ activity,and e‐learning and e‐skills ,
which can help to develop their activities.
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Social Economy sector becomes an important job creatorwhere inactive aged have their role,and as all employers , need to be e‐included.
3)TIC could help at dependent old age
• When diseases, handicaps, lost memory, dementia,… TIC couldhelp to maintain longer people at home with life comfort
• For living conditions: keeping human aspects as goal, intelligenthousing, intelligent transport, e‐nursing, telemedicine, …
• R&D : a huge scope to search,and investors will find markets .
• Who pay? : how our social security systems
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Who pay? : how our social security systemswill get out the crisis period ?
If well managed, could be minegold for growth and green growth.
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EESC position
1.Access to infrastructure and digital toolis a fundamental right.is a fundamental right.
2. E‐inclusion, for aged people too, means to take ownershipof contents of all digital media, in order to :
a) Be connectedb) Know how to use hardwarec) Feel easy with technology
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c) Feel easy with technologyd) Be trained to use softwaree) Be involved in digital world.
3.E‐inclusion can’t be anything but a global approachand must insure empowerment of each ,not only to find a job, whatever its situation in
societysociety,till the end of life.
Permanent learning of digital competencies for allhas to be organized by public authorities.
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Source: EESC Opinion 669/2011
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CONCLUDING REMARKS
In GERMANY,
Prime Minister Merkel recognized thatlife expectancy for the poorest part of populationfelt down during past ten years,
from 77, 5 Y in 2001
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to 75, 5 Y in 2010
Source: AFP, 12.12.2011.
• Looking after aged people leads to ask ourselveswhat kind of society we build. TIC are only helpingtools for communicating, managing, alleviatingpenibility, etc...
• We all, aged and less aged, and young, needfirst trust and growth.
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• Because we need children. And we will not havechildren in our countries without trust & growth.
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• As inequal access to TIC already reflects economic andsocial inequalities,
it could be a disaster
to take crisis causes (unbalanced allowance of wealth) as ato take crisis causes (unbalanced allowance of wealth) as agoal for tomorrow, and make people dedicated to work frombirth to death, in case they find jobs,because birth rate will continue to fall and people to becomepoorest, as Demand and Growth.
• We have to face consequences of recession but recessioncant’be a social model for future
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cant be a social model for future.
We should organize life timeto have a life for ourselves.
Thank you for your attention.
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Summary of conditions for an « inclusive for all » digital EU
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zdzFrance Pensions
Ratio contributing /mandatory retired (source: CNAVTS, general regime of S.S. pensions )
It shows an important decreasing:
1960 : 4 contributers for 1 retired 2010 : 1,5 contributers for 1 retired
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2050 : 1,2 for 1 (provision).
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1980 1990 2010
Allemagne
1,56 1,45 1,39
Autriche 1,65 1,46 1,44
Belgique 1,68 1,62 1,84
Bulgarie 2,05 1,82 1,49
Chypre 2,42 1,46 1
Danemark
1,55 1,67 1,88
Espagne 2,2 1,36 1,37
Estonie 1,64
Finlande 1 63 1 78 1 87
Fertility Indicators in eu Mstates (Average number per woman‐source : INED,France)
1980 1990 2010
Allemagne 1,56 1,45 1,39Finlande 1,63 1,78 1,87
France métropolitaine
1,95 1,78 2,00
Grèce 2,23 1,39 1,55
Hongrie 1,91 1,87 1,26
Irlande 3,24 2,11 2,07
Italie 1,64 1,33 1,41
Lettonie 1,9 2 1,18
Lituanie 1,99 2,03 1,55
Luxembourg
1,49 1,6 1,63
Malte 1,98 2,04 1,44 1
Pays‐Bas 1,6 1,62 1,75 1
Pologne 2,26 2,05 1,38
Portugal 2,25 1,57 1,32 1
République tchèque
2,1 1,9 1,49
Autriche 1,65 1,46 1,44
Belgique 1,68 1,62 1,84
Bulgarie 2,05 1,82 1,49
Chypre 2,42 1,46
tchèque
Roumanie
2,43 1,84 1,30
Royaume‐Uni
1,89 1,83 1,98
Slovénie 2,1 1,46 1,40
Slovaquie 2,31 2,09 1,57
Suède 1,68 2,13 1,99
Union européenne (27 pays)
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Danemark 1,55 1,67 1,88
Espagne 2,2 1,36 1,37
Estonie 1,64
Finlande19801,63
19901,78
20101,87
France métropolitaine
1,95 1,78 2,00
Grèce 2 23 1 39 1 55Grèce 2,23 1,39 1,55
Hongrie 1,91 1,87 1,26
Irlande 3,24 2,11 2,07
Italie 1,64 1,33 1,41
Lettonie 1,9 2 1,18
Lituanie 1,99 2,03 1,55
L b 6 6
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Luxembourg 1,49 1,6 1,63
Malte 1,98 2,04 1,44
Pays‐Bas 1,6 1,62 1,75
Pologne 2,26 2,05 1,38
Portugal 2,25 1,57 1,32
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République tchèque
1980
2,1
1990
1,9
2010
1,49
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Roumanie 2,43 1,84 1,30
Royaume‐Uni
1,89 1,83 1,98
Slovénie 2,1 1,46 1,40
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Slovaquie 2,31 2,09 1,57
Suède 1,68 2,13 1,99
