Miguel González-Sancho

European Commission, DG Information Society and Media

Unit “Digital Agenda: Policy Coordination”

Conference “Innovation for Digital Inclusion” Gdansk, 6.10.2011

The Digital Agenda for Europe and e-Inclusion

The DAE virtuous cycle

What is the Digital Agenda?101 specific actions, including 31 legal proposals

••• 4

Interoperability &

standards

A vibrant digital single market

Trust & Security

Research & innovation

Using ICT to help society

Enhancing digital literacy, skills & inclusion

Fast & ultra-fast Internet access

An open & inclusive process

Coordination with authorities in Member

States

Open data from the scoreboard

Digital Agenda Assembly

Online engagement

Pillar 6: digital literacy, skills and inclusion

Challenges 30% of EU population never used Internet, shortage 700.000 ICT professionals TIC, women and ICT, accessibility

Target: by 2015 75% regular Internet users (60% from groups lagging behind); 15% EU population never used Internet

Measures on e-accessibility web, contents, implementation, mainstream

Measures on e-competencesmainstream, policies, tools, indicators, women

eInclusion: regular internet usage of disadvantaged groups

Source: Commission on the basis of Eurostat

Riga indicator on regular internet use, 2008-2009

Little progress of disadvantaged socio-economic groups in regular internet usage

EU average

Levels of digital competence (2009)

Source: Eurostat Community Survey on ICT Usage by Households and by Individuals

get more people online

now 2015 now 2015 now 2015

regular use disadvantaged never used

eSkills training

60% 75%

41%60%

30%15%

While growing steadily over the past few years, rates of regular and frequent Internet use in Poland are still relatively low compared to the EU average. There are 35% who have never used the Internet, whilst 55% are regular users and 42% are frequent users.

The most popular websites are social media, for which Poland is above EU average (41%).

While still below EU average (40.4%), the use of eCommerce by individuals is about a third of population now orders goods and services over the Internet.

Pillar 7: ICT-enabled benefits for EU society

Challenges: Ageing, health costs, independenceModern User-centred e-administration

Sustainable healthcare ICT-based, independent living,

e-government targets: by 2015 50% of citizens using eGovernement, with more than half of them using filled forms

••• 15••• 15Source: EC '2009 Ageing Report: economic and budgetary projections for the EU-27 Member States (2008-2060)'

Percentage of GDP (EU27)

Prospects of economic impact from ageing

Digital public services

EU citizens use eGovernment

Member States have online cross-border public services

ALSO: EU citizens access eHealth online

50%

50%

100%100%

eGovernment services for citizens are not very well developed in Poland: with availability of public services somewhat below the European average (at 73%) and a low take-up (at 28%).

Online service provision for businesses is close to average (at 88%) while use by businesses has greatly surpassed EU average level (at 89%).

Pillar 4: fast and ultra-fast broadband

Challenges: satisfy demand for basic telecom services + broadband for all in competitive markets

- Broadband universal service

- Next Generation networks

- Open and neutral networks

Rural coverage - xDSL

(ultra)fast internet: The targets

20202013

≥30Mbps for 100%

Internet for 100%

≥100Mbps for 50% of households

Ultra-fast Internet

Fixed broadband coverage in Poland is relatively low, partly explaining the low take-up of broadband (16%, the third lowest in the EU).

Nevertheless, household broadband connectivity went up from 51% to 57% in 2010. Some 90% of connected households have a broadband subscription.

The proportion of businesses with an internet connection is one of the lowest in the EU, but progress in Poland was the second biggest in EU in 2010 (fixed broadband access increased from 58% to 66%).

Wireless Internet markets are catching up, although they are still below the EU average.

Broadband in Poland

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