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Digital Literacy and Labor Market

Marián Velšic - Analyst, Institute for Public Affairs, Slovakia, ·

For almost ten years Institute for Public Affairs makes surveys that map how is Slovak society coping with modern information and communication Technologies. First data from 2000 indicated that modern technology will be a problem for no small part of population. Intensive penetration of information Technologies into economy causes constant demand for a job with adequate level of digital literacy. Labor market is thus considered an environment that can in future not only suppress digital illiteracy but also increase its level. However it is necessary to answer the question how will the population in productive age – various categories of employees, entrepreneurs, sole traders and unemployed – adapt to increasing demands of labor market in this field.

Marián Velšic

Marián Velšic, graduate of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia with a Ph.D. degree in sociology. During 1993-1994 worked as an analyst for political parties. From 1995 to 1998 worked for the Cabinet of Political Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Since September 1998 he has worked at the Institute for Public Affairs. In 1995…
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