39 National context According to the Monstat survey from October 2015, the percentage of the persons who have used a computer in the last three months is 67.2%, while the percentage of those who have never used a computer is 26.1%. Regarding the Internet use, 68.1% of the people said they have used the Internet in the last three months, 79.9% of which used the Internet every day or almost every day, and 17.1% used the Internet at least once a week. Among the citizens who have used the Internet in this period, 90.6% of persons aged 16-24 use the Internet every day or almost every day. Among the reasons for not using the Internet, most of the people interviewed said that they did not need to use the Internet (45%), while for the 27% the lack of the skills was the reason for not using the Internet, for the 24.7% it was the cost of the Internet and for the 27.3% the cost of the equipment was the main reason. Regarding the basic and advanced digital skills, by the end of March 2016 a total of 8,290 citizens of Montenegro has begun certification of their computer knowledge and skills according to the ECDL standard, while 7,721 citizens gained the ECDL certificate. Through the project “Implementing ECDL standards in the education system”, which was completed in June 2014, the authorized ECDL test centers in the Examination Center of Montenegro and the Human Resources Administration of Montenegro were established to assume the role of centers for the ECDL training and certification in the educational system and in the state administration of Montenegro. According to the survey on the use of ICT in enterprises conducted by Monstat in 2015, 38.5% of the companies (out of a total number of companies that use computers in their business) reported to employ ICT/ IT experts who have the ability to develop, maintain and manage ICT or IT systems and applications, which represents an increase by 0.8% compared to 2014. According to the objectives of the Information Society Development Strategy 2012-2016, the number of the ICT graduates was to increase to 25% of the total number of the graduates by 2014, and to 30% by 2016. This task has not been accomplished since during the 2011-2015 period there were 14,490 graduated students at the Montenegrin universities, 1,208 of which graduated from the study programs related to the ICT, which amounts to 8.3% on average for this period.

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