TELECENTRE EUROPE 8th Annual Conference

From digital inclusion to digital empowerment

GABRIEL RISSOLAManaging DirectorTelecentre Europe

Belgrade, 24 Sept 2015

E-SOCIETY: the DSM reductionism

Riga declaration on e-Inclusion (2006) Digital Agenda (2010) Pillar VI: Enhancing digital literacy, skills and inclusion Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs (2013) e-Skills manifesto (2015) Digital Single Market (2015) Unlocking the benefits of e-services and advancing

digital skills:

“People need the right digital skills to find jobs and capture opportunities. They also stand to benefit from high-quality online public services in an inclusive e-society—which could also potentially save billions of euros per year”

E-SOCIETY: the DSM reductionism

• Juncker’s focus: Jobs, Growth, Fairness and Democratic Change • e-Society: just Government/market-driven e-services?• Digital skills: only to behave as educated consumers/citizens?

Our position: we want digitally-empowered Europeans Inclusive digital literacy still needed Citizens as agents of change, from digital consumers to prosumers Democratic change: digitally boosted, bottom-up e-participation

SKILLS FOR EMPLOYABILITY: a paradigm shift

Ms Thyssen, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility:

“Early next year, the European Commission will present a new EU wide Skills Agenda. This will focus action to help more people to develop and upgrade their skills, including basic skills such as literacy, numeracy and digital competences. It will set out measures on how we can better anticipate skills needs and improve the transparency and recognition of qualifications.”

(17 Sept 2015)

SKILLS FOR EMPLOYABILITY: a paradigm shift

Education to meet labour market needs: VET, Adult learning, Skills and Qualifications moved from DG EAC to DG EMPL Adult learning now focused on improving basics skills, obtaining new

qualifications, up-skilling, or re-skilling for employment The EC committed to helping all EU countries create flexible, high quality adult

learning systems Digital skills under the forthcoming European Skills Agenda Youth unemployment tackled through the Youth Employment Initiative Measures to promote entrepreneurship (including a competence framework)

TE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2015

• Unite IT: • Skills and Jobs: Education and training | Youth employability• Inclusion: Vulnerable groups | Gender equality• Social innovation

• e-EUROPA: • e-Participation in theory and in practice

• Community: • Opportunities for telecentres offered by the IT industry• Official launch of “I-LINC” stakeholder platform on youth employability• Knowledge world café on sustainability and funding

E n j o y t h e c o n f e r e n c e !