digital skills<\/a>.<\/p>\nBy 2030, ICT specialists are projected to number 12 million, but gender imbalance remains an issue.<\/p>\n
The report calls on Member States to adopt a comprehensive approach to enhance digital skills at all educational levels and encourage youth, especially girls, to pursue STEM disciplines.<\/p>\n
Digitalising public services<\/h3>\n Member States are advancing towards making all key public services and e-health records accessible online and providing secure electronic IDs (eID).<\/p>\n
Currently, eID is available to 93% of the EU population, with the EU Digital Identity Wallet expected to boost usage. However, reaching 100% digital public services by 2030 remains challenging.<\/p>\n
Commenting on the report, Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age: “Today’s report clearly shows that we are not on track to reach our targets on the digital transformation in Europe.<\/p>\n
“But it also indicates a clear way forward: we need additional investments in digital skills, high-quality connectivity, and uptake of AI.<\/p>\n
“We need to incentivise the use of digital tools. We need many more people to get digital skills \u2013 both basic and expert level – to leverage our strengths. And we need to foster cooperation and better integrate our single market to really enable the digital transformation across Europe.”<\/p>\n
Member States must align their national roadmaps with the Digital Decade Policy Programme by 2 December 2024. The Commission will monitor progress and report in the 2025 State of the Digital Decade report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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