Join the Swedish Coalition for Digital Competence
The EU is investing 100 billion in a single digital program for the Union, where access to digital skills is a key element. In Sweden, IT&Telekomföretagen has taken the initiative for a Swedish coalition within the framework of the EU Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition program. All actors are welcome to participate!
The importance of digital skills, at both the specialist and citizen level, is great and growing both in Sweden and the rest of Europe. An example of the importance attached to the issue is the European Commission's recently presented investment in digitization of 9.2 billion euros, of which 700 million is allocated to skills enhancement initiatives.
Since 2016, the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition program has been running, which aims to bring together all the good forces in the Union to promote digital skills. It is organized in the form of national coalitions, and at a meeting of the IT&Telecom Companies' IT Skills Council on May 3, 2018, it was decided that a Swedish coalition would be established. IT&Telecom Companies will be coordinating, and the other organizations so far committed to being part of the coalition are as follows:
- Government Digitalization Council
- Swedsoft
- The National Agency for Education
- SKL
- Technology companies
- The Internet Foundation
- The Union
A project manager will now be appointed to concretize and implement the action plan agreed by the parties, which includes the following two main activities
- Highlight the digital literacy activities that the participating actors are already doing, or planning to do.
- In the fall of 2018, carry out a joint activity to promote gender equality in IT.
All actors, national and local, with or without links to the digital sector, who want to raise the profile of and contribute to efforts to promote digital literacy in various ways, are welcome to join the coalition.
In the picture, taken in connection with the IT Competence Council meeting on May 3, 2018: Standing from left: Anders Österlund (Ericsson), Michael Westerberg (Delegia), Ola Svedin (Mobile Heigths), Örjan Johansson (Atea), Joke Palmkvist (Microsoft, new chair of the IT Competence Council), Emma Blomberg (Visma Enterprise), Annika Agelii Genlott (SKL), Jonna Nordén (Bouvet), Fredrik Voltaire (Almega), Peter Karlberg (Skolverket), Annika Järvebro (Digitaliseringsrådet). Seated from left: Beatrice Silow (Sigma IT Consulting), Carl-Johan Hamilton (Ants, outgoing chair of the IT Skills Council), Fredrik von Essen (IT&Telekomföretagen), Pia Groenewolt (All Digital/Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition, Brussels).