The recent CONVID-19 pandemic caused the closure of the schools of all levels in almost all the countries of the world. From kindergartens to Universities, they had to postpone their face-to-face activities and start thinking about providing distance learning. Higher education organizations were prepared for this, since most of them provide their services partly on-line. Read More …
The new situation that has been provoked due to the CONVID-19 has spotlighted the necessity of digital competences. People in most countries are not allowed to go shopping, except food stores and pharmacies. They are encouraged or obliged to shop on-line and do their financial transactions using digital tools. In Greece, the authorities developed a Read More …
The first Intellectual Output of this project will be a competence map. For the digital rescue kit, the consortium will define how skills and competencies, or competency definitions can be aggregated to form more comprehensive skills and competencies. This must be done separately for each module of the kit. The consortium uses “LimeSurvey” to ask Read More …
This blog post focuses on digital literacy and different frameworks, which are mainly European Commission. First DigComp 2.0 is explained, second DigComp 2.1 is described, third, the special framework for digital competences for educators and learners are explored, all three are relearned to each other. Finally, the Digital Skills Toolkit by ITU is described, which even are build on the three former ones. Read More …
As of January 2020, almost 4,54 billion people were active internet users around the world. Every online user has a digital identity, either we like it or not. Personal digital identity consists in small parts of information about users available online. More specifically, it contains online accounts, usernames, personal data, medical history, credit card numbers Read More …
The following article has to do with a question given to the European Parliament on February 2019 and and highlights the importance of the DISK project, since this project attacts on the digital competences of the majority of the European citizens. Question for written answer E-000749-19 to the Commission Rule 130 Dimitrios Papadimoulis (GUE/NGL) Read More …
Nowadays, E-Government is more and more being implemented. One of the targets of the DISK project is to prepare citizens to live and function in this continually expanded digital world. Function of e-Government E-Governance is expected to improve the functioning of Public Administration. Its implementation has benefited the public sector and businesses and citizens alike. Read More …
Smartphone Images & JPeG Many people in Europe own a smartphone (approx. 240 million; source: www.statistica.com). All smartphones have an inbuilt camera and most people use it. 43 % of the smartphone users are taking images with their device and produce millions of images each year. Some of the can be admired in Facebook, Instagram Read More …
DISK – Strumenti di sopravvivenza per immigrati digitali Newsletter Nr. 1 Gennaio 2020 Il progetto Inviare una e-mail, utilizzare Facebook e Instagram, svolgere attività amministrative online o fare una semplice ricerca su Google, sono attività che svolgiamo ogni giorno nella maggior parte del mondo! Queste attività richiedono competenze digitali, conoscenze, abilità e propensione verso l’utilizzo Read More …
Context/background of project The DigComp 2.0 framework contains the statistic that on average 46 % of European citizens lack in digital competences (DC). Every possible effort must be made to reduce this number of less educated people. This project focuses on typical DC necessary for people to remain well-integrated members in a digitalized society. Objectives Read More …
