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It is necessary to develop informative modular ICT educational programmes for adults with
clearly defined training results for education of various inhabitant target groups. Standardisation
of modules according to ECDL could relieve training planning and result interpretation. This
approach is particularly important for the training of unemployed as it will allow measuring the
achieved level of ICT skills and acknowledging the achieved level of skills for a potential
employer.
It is important to ensure support also for acquisition opportunities of informal education in the
field of ICT for all society groups, in particular for children and young adults, seniors, poor,
unemployed and individual entrepreneurs using the network of public libraries. In order to ensure
availability of services, public library material and technical base and number and qualification of
library employees should be strengthened.
Self-employed, micro-enterprise and SMEs skills and competences in the field of ICT should be
facilitated, i.a., paying attention to education related to ICT usage of opportunities in the
enterprise operational process improvement or, for example, for opportunities to perform
entrepreneurship with the mediation of communication means, including Internet.
It is important to provide support to ICT training for seniors, foreseeing training not only for eInclusiveness but also for the improvement of the employment perspectives and reduction on
unemployment risk for preretirement population group (at least in age group 50+).
Also, it is essential to provide development of digital skills of inhabitants, medical personnel,
pharmacists, pharmacist assistants and other persons involved in provision of health care
services, both in utilisation of solutions provided by e-health and ICT and in utilisation of new
digital medical technology used in health care.
Within the framework of subject “Informatics” of elementary school educational programme, it is
necessary to foresee education of young people related to questions of ICT security, in particular
in the field of Internet content security – possible risks and threats in the Internet (hatred, racism,
child pornography and paedophilia, emotional humiliation in the Internet, identity theft and data
misuse, the dos and don’ts of using the Internet, web etiquette etc.) as well as education regarding
the usage of copyrights and legal software.
5.1.3 Increase of Public administration ICT Competences
Depending on a profession, persons are using ICT for their daily work tasks (state administration
employees, accountants, teachers, etc.). Institutions of professional education or institutions of
higher education according to the profession requirements provide the required knowledge in the
field of ICT. State function is to formulate standards and requirements for ICT knowledge and
skills of appropriate professions. In order for public administration to perform changes in
operational process using ICT means, it is necessary to provide adequate number of ICT
specialists in public administration, competitive salary and increase competences for employees
of public sector, focusing on both policy planners and policy implementers.
Process-oriented thinking, operational process analysis skills, ability to find shortcomings in
processes and employ technologies must be stimulated in public administration in order to
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