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Promoting the ICT-areas certified knowledge concept.
Encouraging the use of European and national certificates through including the commitment
for owning certificates for ICT-literacy as an obligatory element in the process of employment in the
civil service (such as, through the Civil Servants Agency). Determining the minimum elements to be
contained in the certificate and opening the space for competitive presence of national and European
certificate-programmes.
Creating the ICT-literature in Macedonian language and in other local languages in
areas with the appropriate legal framework.
One of the measures that will have positive impact on increasing the ICT-literacy of the citizens
will be the creation of a literature in Macedonian language and in other local languages, which will
facilitate the access of the beneficiaries to the information related to methods of ICT use and its
advantages.
It is necessary to define measures that will encourage the creation of ICT-literature, such as:
tax relieves for its publishing and increasing the motivation for the authors through regulation and
appropriate enforcement of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights.
Encouraging the creation and use of digital information - library funds and areas
related to education: museums etc.
The existing library and museum collections in Macedonia perform their educational function
in a predominantly traditional way. The new standards and trends in these areas impose intensive ICT
use in the operations of the institutions themselves, and especially as regards the performing of their
educational function; digitalisation and interoperability of the National and of the University library,
and the local libraries.
Encouraging the creation and use of digital contents as teaching tools (multimedia and
Multilanguage) in the primary and secondary education
ICT use in the educational process is the key factor for fast and efficient transformation towards
an education which has the student in its centre, and whose objectives refer to obtaining participatory
experience during the learning process. ICT-contents encourage the interactivity, creativity and
participation at students, and in many cases represent the only answer to the challenges in order to
meet the up to date language and methodological standards.
Macedonian explanatory vocabulary
The lack of standardisation for explaining the different phrases related to the ICT field, which
we daily encounter, creates confusion and makes its implementation more difficult. Through the
implementation of a project such as this one, a public debate would be opened for defining the
standards regarding all phrases that are ICT-related, as well as regarding their explanation in
Macedonian language and in other local languages in areas with appropriate legal framework for that
purpose.
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