The Valencian Community will receive 15.5 million euro from the EU´s Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan to train citizens in digital skills, in an action that aims to guarantee the digital inclusion of everyone “without leaving anyone behind in the process of digitisation”.
The 15.5 million will allow the training of more than 73,000 Valencians in digital skills that allow them to inform themselves, develop digital content and solve the basic technical problems they may face, allowing them to use digital technologies with autonomy and sufficiency, according to the Ministry of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society.
The objective that the Valencian government intends to achieve is to “provide basic digital skills for solving problems and focusing on specific situations that any person faces on a daily basis in order to fully exercise digital citizenship”.
The general director for the Fight against the Digital Divide, María Muñoz, has exposed the need to think about the digital divide “beyond access to technology”, since 40% of Valencian citizens have significant skills gaps, so it is necessary to “provide citizens with the necessary tools to make safe and responsible use of technology”.
The training actions will start from the last quarter of 2022, in a program that will be developed through training modules, workshops or seminars of between five and twenty hours adapted to profiles of citizens who access the programs.
The beneficiaries of these programs will be people from 14 years old, with special attention to those with greater vulnerability, without skills or with low digital skills.
