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The most important challenge is to change staff attitudes in promoting digital inclusion of socially vulnerable groups. It is important to share these experiences and understand the ground problems behind digital divide and dual exclusion.I think it is important to identify the gaps in digital inclusion and raise awareness at both policy and implementation level. Not everybody has equal access to internet resources or even computers.
I agree with Anna that it is important to identify the gaps in digital inclusion especially for the vulnerable groups. I am the Chairman of the City Council of Larissa (Greece) and we try a lot to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to participate in city activities. The most of these activities are based on the philosophy of a Learning City and the majority of them are free. But this is not enough. We have to change, at first, the ideas, the culture of the stuff, how they understand the needs of the vulnerable groups. How they plan for them. And I must say that these efforts have a lot of surprises.
In the case of computer literacy courses to the elderly, it is noteworthy that at first we had only 15 applications. 6 months later more than 500 new applications were applied leading to the creation of 6 new classes. The elderly gained very useful computer skills that turned out necessary in the middle of the corona-virus crisis.
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