ICT training “needs fundamental revision”

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(2006), "ICT training “needs fundamental revision”", Education + Training, Vol. 48 No. 2/3. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.2006.00448bab.013

ICT training “needs fundamental revision”

Education and vocational training need to be fundamentally changed to build greater skills in information and communication technology, European Commissioner Viviane Reding told the UN World Summit on the Information Society, held in Tunis. In an address by video link, she told an e-skills capacity-building symposium that an e-skills society was the most certain guarantee against social exclusion. Symposium participants discussed how partnerships between governments, the private sector and non-governmental organisations would better help to meet the challenge of rapid technological development. In the “Tunis e-skills declaration”, symposium participants called for public-sector education systems to endorse industry-based and informal training and certification, fiscal incentives for companies and individuals to encourage investment in e-skills training, and public support for innovative multi-stakeholder projects.