Presentation of the main results of two monitoring exercises aimed at analyzing the diffusion in the Italian high schools of teaching and certification activities in the framework of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) disciplines. The first exercise, that involved school managers, was aimed at investigating the ICT teaching and certification activities performed by the schools during the 2006-07 school year. The second monitoring exercise, that addressed students who obtained the ECDL (European Computer Driving License) certification during their high schools, was aimed at investigating their point of view with respect to their certification experience.