What can Digital Agenda and We do for Jobs & Skills?

Submitted by stylianosm on Tue, 2012-06-12 12:56

As part of the preparation for the Digital Agenda Assembly, the discussion in all other topic areas shifts and focuses horizontally on their impact, real or potential, positive or negative, on employment.

For better aggregation, I will provide here all relative discussion threads:

1) Media convergence for employment?

http://daa.ec.europa.eu/content/media-convergence-employment

2) How can investment in High speed Internet connectivity help creating jobs and fight unemployment?

Digital Agenda Assembly Jobs & Skills Virtual Meeting

Submitted by stylianosm on Sat, 2012-06-09 19:01

Update: June 15th, 2012

Following up on the meeting and due to the fact that some people weren't able to join, we will have a second meeting:

Conference call on Monday, June 18th, 4pm CET.

If you would like to attend, please send me a private message over the platform with your email address so as to forward you instructions.

Thank you,
Stylianos

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You are kindly invited to join the Jobs & Skills Working Group Meeting.

When: Wednesday, June 13 2012 04:00 PM (GMT+01:00)

Open Education for Learning e-Skills Ecosystems

Submitted by stylianosm on Wed, 2012-06-06 15:53

There is a need to constantly facilitate the learning of a dispersed population with bigger agility and speed. What can educational technology, more specific distance education / e-learning combined with open education movement bring to the table?

OER and Open Courseware have already been mentioned (http://daa.ec.europa.eu/content/mass-creation-skills). Here are some more inspiring initiatives and practices of interest.

Taking Stock of the Jobs & Skills Discussion

Submitted by stylianosm on Sat, 2012-06-02 09:06

At the start, five major relevant topics & areas of discussion of the Working Group were defined and offered as real challenges and e-quests for motivated people and institutions to address:

1. Mapping & bridging the supply & demand gap in Europe
2. Good practices & initiatives that lead to jobs
3. Preparing & setting-up an effective multi-stakeholder partnership for Europe, Youth & Employment
4. Challenges & roadblocks
5. Innovative approaches to e-skills & training for employment and new jobs

e-Quest 2: Seeking the European ICT-based Jobs Champions!

Submitted by stylianosm on Fri, 2012-06-01 17:05

Following up the five e-quest structure for the Jobs & Skills' group mission that was introduced earlier (http://daa.ec.europa.eu/content/changing-digital-agenda-game-5-e-quests-...) we launch today the quest for ICT Champions (e-quest 2): Collecting inspiring initiatives on ICT-based job creation