According to the European data strategy, the EU plans to increase digital literacy among its citizens from the current 58% to 65% by 2025. Can Eurasia close the digital literacy gap with the EU in the same period and what should be done to achieve this goal? This will be discussed at the StrategEast.Live panel discussion “Digital literacy in Eurasia”.
Join us on Wednesday, February 17 at 10:00 a.m. CET
Panel participants:
– Rustam Gulov, Media Literacy and Multimedia Specialist, MediaCAMP project, Internews in Tajikistan;
– Asset Dosymkhanov, Head of the Department of ICT and Innovations at Zerde National Infocommunication Holding JSC, Digital Kazakhstan;
– Ruslana Korenchuk, Head of the Diia Digital Education Project at the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Tigran Shmis – Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank.
The main issues to be discussed:
- What digital skills should be developed first among the population?
- What methods of spreading digital literacy are most effective?
- Who should be primarily responsible for the dissemination of digital literacy: government, IT companies, civil society?
- How does digital literacy affect economic growth and poverty reduction?
- What level of digital literacy of the population will allow the transition to the system of “digital state”?
