Istanbul Summit

68,000 people - Get On-line Day!

Broad engagement in eSkills Week

33 Countries; 25,000 telecentres!!

15 staff exchanges – 20 countries

Our work with you: 28 community

skills training projects to reach 5.4m

people in 3 years.

EU eSkills Week 2010EU eSkills Week 2010

BELGIUM: National BELGIUM: National

campaign including campaign including

employment agencies &

employment agencies &

NGO Train-the-Trainer

NGO Train-the-Trainer

eventsevents

SLOVAKIA: Discussion SLOVAKIA: Discussion Forum for Be fIT!

Forum for Be fIT! ProgramsPrograms

ROMANIA: Launching ICT ROMANIA: Launching ICT skills portal skills portal

e-aptitudini.roe-aptitudini.ro

Ireland: “Smart Learners”

Ireland: “Smart Learners”

event on Life Long event on Life Long

Learning with Gov Learning with Gov

MinisterMinister

Netherlands: Women Netherlands: Women

Inclusion EventInclusion Event

BULGARIA: MS, BULGARIA: MS, Workshop for Civic Workshop for Civic

Initiatives Foundation Initiatives Foundation & 2 Ministries co-& 2 Ministries co-present on eSkillspresent on eSkills

AUSTRIA: IT Fitness LaunchAUSTRIA: IT Fitness Launch

“As we sit here in

2010 ... there's no

less potential, no

less opportunity

today to make a

fundamental impact

in a wide swath of

society's issues

through the power

of  information &

software, We're

excited to have a

chance to go work on

that." Steve Ballmer , May 2010

Why We (Microsoft) Care:

Challenges…

“Europe is suffering from a growing professional ICT skills shortage and could lack the competent practitioners to fill as many as 700,000 IT jobs by 2015”Commissioner Neelie Kroes, May 2010Commissioner Neelie Kroes, May 2010

“Over half of Europeans (250 million) go online every day but 150 million Europeans – some 30% - have never used the internet.”EU Digital Agenda, May 2010EU Digital Agenda, May 2010

“Within 5 years 90 per cent of jobs will require ICT skills, across all sectors, making skills, training and education in ICT a critical priority for employment and job prospects”

IDC Report - IDC Report - Post Crisis: e-Skills are Post Crisis: e-Skills are Needed to Drive Europe's Innovation Needed to Drive Europe's Innovation Society. Society. Dec 2009Dec 2009

“Immigrant women clearly identify access to IT as critical to improve their social & economic status in the EU…Immigrant women with no or basic e-skills show higher level of unemployment Immigrant Women, e-Skills & Immigrant Women, e-Skills & Employability in Europe study. Mar Employability in Europe study. Mar 20102010

“Training of people in the workforce must be undertaken….Certification is crucual for ICT professionals”IDCIDC

Skills and talent supply is at the core of the EU 2020 Goals

Enhancing Digital literacy, skills & e-inclusion

The digital era should be about empowerment and emancipation; background or skills should not be a barrier to accessing this potential...

Commissioner Neelie Kroes

May 2010

EU Digital Agenda aims to… Bridge the digital skills gap by promoting greater coordination of ICT skills

initiatives at Member State level, especially by proposing digital literacy & competences as a priority of the European Social Fund.

Promote the supply & demand of ICT skills in the labour market by developing tools by 2012 to identify the competences of ICT practitioners & users, so that companies seeking employees with particular ICT skills can easily compare their skills

Targets for 5 year plan: 2013 - 50% of citizens should use online services 2015 - At least 50% of EU households to shop online 2015 - Increase in overall internet usage from 60 to 75% 2015 - Half the proportion of people who have never used the internet

reduced from 30 to 15% 2020 - Fast broadband connections at 30Mb per second for all EU citizens

with at least 50% of households at 100Mb

Building strategic alignment to EU and national policies…

2011 – Climbing Higher…

Digital Agenda

European Year of Volunteering

Impact Framework?

More?

What is the unique value you bring as a community?

How will you make others feel that?

What are you committed to accomplishing together?