Nina von Staffeldt1 Learn More about ICT Goal: Strengthening the ICT competences of the Danish population through ict- training courses (mainly free for.

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Learn More about ICT

Goal:Strengthening the ICT competences of the Danish population through ict-training courses (mainly free for citizens)

In order to:Increase cohesion, provide more training offers, increase information on possibilities through cooperation

A national multi-actor collaboration – voluntary, decentralised set-up

The Learn More Network: A wide range of organisations in Danmark• Very different profiles

• ... But with a common interest and involvement

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Learn More about ICT - some background

Denmark is in the top of the top-10 of digitized countries

A society where more and more public and private information can only be accessed by the internet

A society, which plan to make several public services accessible only via the internet, mobile services etc.

A society with almost 100% broadband coverage and almost 100% web-accessibility for citizens

In 2007 figures, however, showed that

• 20% of the population had no ICT-skills

• 20% of the population had only poor ICT-skills

Resulting in a set of interrelated initiatives aimed at up-skilling the population on various levels in terms of ICT-skills

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Target groups

Target group: citizens with no or few ICT competences

Shortly and over time: A continued focus on specific needs for special groups in society, eg.

• Senior citizens

• People with short education

• People with other ethnical origin, who have no or short education

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What we do – means & measures

Training of trainers and training of teacher-colleagues in partner organisations

www.it-formidler.dk – educational material, meeting point and much more

Visibility: Printed and digital information material all over the country as well as marketing gadgets

The National Inquiery Service 1881

Campaign in National Broadcast Autumn/Winter 2009 – TV, radio, text-tv, articles in printed media, the internet

Synergy with other governmental strategies for ICT use

Coordination with other ICT-campains at national level

Collaboration and close follow-up in the Monitoring Group of Learn More about ICT

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How we are organised

The Network coordination

A Monotoring Group with one representative of each partner organisation

Secretariat at The National IT and Telecom Agency

National meetings four times a year – decision making

E-mails, news, keeping in contact

IT-formidler.dk

Under the auspecies of the Monitoring Group

Run by The National IT and Telecom Agency

Several hundreds of ict-trainers, many of them trained in a specific ict-pedagogical concept, developed particularly for trainees with no or poor ict-skills.

A group of editors, one or more from each partner organisation with special responsibility to create ’life’, courses etc. at it-formidler.dk. Meeting approx. four times a year

Newsletter each month

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Projects connected to Learn more about ICT- more cooperation with the partnership

Lær mere om it

Seniornet

Citizen-to-citizen

IT-formidler.dk’When & where’

SME

Research

project

Learn more about ICT

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Advantages of the Learn More about ICT cooperation

Development and sharing of training material

Local training offers for citizens all over the country

Citizens graduately recognize the common logo

Inspiration, sharing of know-how and experience

Large and small cooperation on local, regional and national basis

Much more fun to work together

No end date of the initiative

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Why it works

Common interest for all partner organisations

Both bottom-up and top-down

Non-political initiative

With nationwide collaboration crossing sectors and areas, chances of reaching target groups are highly increased

Networks at different levels – works where people are in reality

The Monitoring Committee, the ICT-trainers and the editorial group function as ambassadors for the initiative

Marketing of the individual partner organisation and it’s branches

Generation of further collaboration projects and connections

Cooperation creates community feeling

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Plans for the future

Continued work, expansion and strengthening of www.it-formidler.dk

• A common entrance for Learn more about ICT

• More content: ICT training-course material, e-learning, curricula, news

Documentation of the work (annual report)

Continued thematic cooperation in the network and with other organisations and networks

Strenghening information to citizens

• Campaigns

• Marketing

• Information material

Continued training of trainers and training of teacher-colleagues in partner organisations

Idéas from abroad

Continued coordination with other national initiatives, inviting partner organisations to participate where relevant

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Thank you!

Nina von StaffeldtSpecial Adviser

Danish National ICT- and Telecom Agency

E-mail: [email protected]

www.it-formidler.dk