Overview of LIKTA ICT education and e-skills activities

Overview of LIKTA ICT education and e-skills activities Latvian Information and Communications Technology Association – LIKTA January, 2012

AGENDA
LIKTA overview
LIKTA ICT education and e-skills initiatives
International projects and cooperation

Latvian Information and Communications Technology Association – LIKTA
A professional association (NGO) encompassing the ICT industry and ICT professionals (established in 1998)
LIKTA represents more than 200 members :
Over 80 organizations from ICT industry, research and educational institutions
more than 14 thous. employees
turnover over 1.26 billion EUR
I ndividual members (ICT professionals) and other associations

LIKTA objectives and priorities
Promoting national ICT strategy and development of Information Society
Promoting ICT education and digital skills , Latvia@World initiative, use of ICT technologies in education
Fostering e-Services and e-Government development, use of ICT in different sectors and industries
Encouraging ICT Industry development and growth, export incentives
Harmonisation of regulation and legislation in ICT , implementation of EU regulatory framework
Promoting innovations , knowledge transfer and RTD in ICT sector
Initiatives to facilitate participation of Latvian SMEs in EC RTD and ICT programmes

International links
CEPI S member Council of European Professional Informatics Societies
ECDL-F ondation member European Computer Driving License Foundation
IEEE ComSOC Sister society
Telecentre Europe member

PPP initiatives in e-business and INFSO field in Latvia – ICT annual prize Platinum Mouse
Established by LIKTA since 2007
Aims to raise awareness of innovative ICT solutions and e-services
Organized in cooperation with Public sector partners and industry partners
Includes awards in categories :
E- government services
E- business solutions (solutions for business development)
Social services
Over 100 projects and e- services promoted in 4 years

LIKTA EC Projects
IST4Balt , Star-Net projects to facilitate participation of Latvian SMEs in EC R&D programmes (2005-2007)
ESF project “Raising qualifications for ICT industry SMEs “ (2006-2008)
ESF EQUAL project “Training in Computer and Internet Usage of Unemployed in Latvia” (2005-2007)
National strategy for ICT sector and cluster development (2006)
Study on ICT sector statistics requirements and demands from user perspective (2007)
ESF project on training ICT company employees in advanced IT technologies and Business courses (200 8 -2010)

LIKTA EC Projects II
Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013 project BONITA (Baltic Organisation and Network of Innovation Transfer Association) (2008-2011)
Grundtvig project “Improving Key Competences of Citizens at Risk of E-Inclusion from the Labour Market” (KC4all) started with participation of LIKTA (2009-2011)
„ Latvia - RTD technological audit ” study performed by LIKTA (contracted by European Commission , 2009-2010)

LIKTA ICT education and e-skills activities
LIKTA activities covers the whole range of goals and themes linked to ICT education and digital skills :
Digital skills for everyone ( e-Inclusion aspects) : disadvantaged groups, seniors, minorities etc.
ICT skills for Office productivity and competitiveness of SMEs :
ICT skills for ICT professionals
Development and defining of ICT standards and curricula for Universities and High-Schools
Supporting and fostering ICT research and innovation

Latvia@World initiative -digital skills for everyone
LIKTA is initiator and coordinator of e - Inclusion and e- S kills development initiative L a tvia@World, started at 2005
Latvia @World goals :
Diminish the digital and social gaps in society
Provide basic information society skills for everyone
Promote the usage of existing e-services
More than 95000 people have acquired different level e-Skills within the project
Project is an example of PPP and has accumulated resources from : ESF, other EU funding programs, Governmental support programs, private donors (Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Swedbank, Lursoft, etc.) and municipal (local) funding

Latvia@World initiative -digital skills for everyone-2
Programme- Basic Information Society Skills
Learning tool for people who have no or little experience of working with computers
16 hours hand-on-training program followed by individual work
Digital skills for SMEs
Specialized training program for SMEs and micro-enterprise needs
24 hours program with additional module for e-business
Digital skills for NGOs
Promote the NGO leaders' interest in ICT to use in their work, communication tools, presentation tools, document exchange sites, creating an effective work of NGOs
Digital Guide for Families –
A unique inter-generation training program for family members
Online knowledge assessment and testing tools (IT Barometer, E-citizen and ECDL tests)

Digital skills for different audiences

IT Barometer
IT Barometer is an on-line testing tool designed to assess basic information society skills. It allows to examine ICT competence level and receive an automated evaluation with indications for necessary improvements
Takes not more than 5 min
Can be taken any time, any place (Internet connection needed)
Statistics for training centre, e-mail with results – for business version
Advice on skills upgrade / certification

IT Barometer

LIKTA coordinates Get Online week in Latvia
Get online week ( e-skills week ) 2011 – a Europe wide campaign to get new computer users online and promote e-services and e-skills
"We are all better off when everyone is online."
Neelie Kroes, the Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for the Digital Agenda, at the Launch of Get online Week in Brusssels, 24.02,2011

Partnerships in Latvia – more than 200 partners involved
Coordinators
Latvian Information and Communication Technology Association (LIKTA)
Ministry of Environment and Regional development (VARAM)
Principal Partners
SIA Lattelecom
SIA Microsoft
Regional partners (municipalities)
Digital map of Latvia – www.eprasmes.lv
Information partners
www.esmaja.lv
www.piesledzieslatvija.lv and 1188
www.solipasolim.lv
www.draugiem.lv

Partneri

Main results of GOW
41482 participants in 5 days
Latvia the most active participants in EU
1.8 % of total population
Number of seminars and workshops taking place all around Latvia – 709
Number of portal www.latvija.lv users increased after the Get Online week

ICT skills for office productivity
Special training program for SMEs and micro enterprises
Includes modular and in-depth training
Initiated and coordinated by LIKTA, supported by ESF
Online Employment toolkit developed within Kc4 a ll project
ECDL certification
LIKTA is the ECDL license holder in Latvia since 2001
Manual and Automated tests available in Latvian ( and Russian )

ICT skills for ICT professionals
LIKTA initiates and supports regular qualification upgrade of ICT professionals
ESF project “Raising qualifications for ICT industry SMEs “ (2006-2008)
ESF project on training ICT company employees in advanced IT technologies and Business courses (200 8 -2010)
ESF project on training ICT company employees in innovative technologies and business development (2010-2013)

High quality ICT education
Primary and Secondary schools
European Computer Driver’s License (ECDL) program level education
Attraction of students to exact sciences
High results in ICT international Olympiads for schools
University level ICT professional education
In 20 10 : 2 211 ICTE students enrolled
11 68 graduated with diploma
15 higher education institutions with 44 programmes at college, professional, bachelors, masters and doctoral levels
Continuous professional skills upgrading programs and courses for ICT companies

LIKTA has a long term partnerships with NGO and ICT industry associations around the world:
Members of Telecentre Europe and Telecentre world organizations – more than 35 countries
Partners of LIKTA EU projects
ICT associations and NGO s from Eastern Europe and neighboring countries: Russia, Belorussia, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Serbia , Turkey etc.

International projects and cooperation -2
LIKTA has shared its experience and tools for e-skills development at International and European conferences and summits
Telecentre Europe summit, Istanbul 2009, ( Online e-skills testing tools )
Telecentre Europe summit , Budapest, 2010 ( E-skills development tools for SMEs and NGO )
3 rd global Forum on Telecentres , Santiago, Chile 2011 _ (Employment Online Toolkit)
And many other events...
We are willing and ready to share and replicate our best practice with other countries and regions !

Thank you for your attention! www.likta.lv www.eprasmes.lv

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