36 and cognitive resources (Latvian language, Latvian history, etc.) in the development of interactive digital learning resources. While developing digital learning materials, the technical and legal availability should be provided also outside the school class. This includes both technical aspects (e.g., interactive whiteboards will not be available outside the class) and legal issues (learning resources developed with public funding should be freely available – for example, using a CC or OSI licences, in the meantime ensuring compensation to the owners for the usage of protected copyrights). All college, bachelor and professional higher education ICT programmes should include internship in the ICT sector, for example, one semester in order to understand industry specifics sufficiently. At the same time the development of an ICT education must be balanced with the acquisition of social skills with a view to prepare comprehensively developed and competitive young people for the labour market. 5.2 Action direction “Widely Available Access to the Internet” In 2010, the EU approved the strategy “Europe 2020”, where one of the most important tasks is to improve Europeans’ access to high-speed and extremely high-speed Internet. The implementation of this task is included in the Digital Agenda for Europe. As a minimal standard of Internet access for the future needs Digital Agenda for Europe has recognised a broadband access at speeds of at least 30 Mbit/s. 100 Mbit/s is mentioned as optimum download speed. Thus, the goal of Digital Agenda for Europe for 2020 provides that: * each EU inhabitant should be able to receive an Internet connection with download speed of more than 30 Mbit/s; * at least 50% of EU households subscribe to Internet connections with download speed of more than 100 Mbit/s. Thus, the key objective is to ensure equal access to e-services across Latvia for all inhabitants and businesses by encouraging the development of electronic communication network infrastructure in areas where due to economic reasons, electronic communication merchants are not interested in the deployment of electronic communication network infrastructure. For the implementation of key objective it is planned to attract EU structural funds and state aid, and its implementation affects a number of electronic communication network infrastructure components – the “last mile”, transport networks and grids, as well as the mapping of the current electronic communications network infrastructure. The development of next-generation broadband networks will provide both inhabitants and merchants and public administrations with fast and high-quality access to public information and will promote demand and development of e-services (e.g., e-governance, e-school, e-commerce, e-health, e-Business), as well as expand opportunities to perform remote work or business not only in e-commerce, but also in other service areas. The development of broadband electronic communications network will expand the variety of the opportunities provided by social media and electronic media. Further actions will be planned in the following areas: * transport networks; * last mile; information_society_development_guidelines_2014_2020.docx; Information Society Development Guidelines 2014-2020