Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition relaunches Pledge Viewer and calls for new pledges
The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition has relaunched their Pledge Viewer platform. The revamped tool improves the user experience and makes creation and management of new pledges easier.
Training local talent a better solution for digital skills gap
The President of Revolent Group argues that investing in up- and re-skilling of the local workforce would bring substantial benefits not only in terms of closing the digital skills gap, but in strengthening local economies.
Commission’s new Industrial and SME Strategies highlight importance of digital skills
The European Commission has brought out two Communications as part of a new Industrial Strategy for a globally competitive, green and digital Europe.
ICS holds IT Professionals’ Day 2020 on 30 March
The Irish Computer Society (ICS) will hold IT Professionals’ Day on 30 March at their headquarters in Dublin. The days serves as a platform to raise awareness of the IT profession.
Commission President von der Leyen releases op-ed on ‘Shaping Europe’s digital future’
President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has published an op-ed in which she commits to Europe’s digital transformation. This op-ed comes on the occasion of presenting the Commission’s strategies for data and Artificial Intelligence in February.
GI organises Annual conference on Women and Informatics on 24-26 April
The annual conference of the group ‘Women and Informatics’ of the German Society of Informatics (GI) will take place from 24-26 April in Hanover.
The Commission publishes the European Digital Strategy, a strategy for data and a paper on AI
The European Commission has published the European Digital Strategy as well as the European strategy for data on 19 February.
European Commission and OECD join forces to monitor development of AI
The European Commission and the OECD have presented a joint global monitoring initiative of the development of AI in order to better respond to AI-related challenges
Achieving a balanced supply of skills key challenge for the EU, conclude ministers
Ensuring a balanced movement of highly qualified people is a challenge for the whole European Union. This was the conclusion at a meeting between education ministers of the EU, which took place on 20 February.
DiversIT Charter Launch postponed to 26 November 2020
The official European launch event of the CEPIS European Digital Women Diversity (DiversIT) Charter will take place on 6 May 2020, at the Steigenberger Wiltcher’s hotel in Brussels, Belgium.
