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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.