DSBPGovernance
Digital skills for better public governance
Project summary
Digital technology has profoundly transformed our society. Work environment, education and citizenship all experience digital culture on a daily basis.
In recent years, the number of online public services has grown in line with citizen demand (61%-65% according to DESI 2022), and the covid period has accelerated this move towards fully digital services.
On the other hand, the EU has defined a Digital Decade policy programme that sets out concrete targets and objectives for 2030 to guide Europe's digital transformation. These include the digitization of 100% of public services.
To achieve this ambitious goal and improve the performance of public administrations, the development of digital skills is essential. Ultimately, they will find their place in the various HR processes, alongside behavioral and technical skills : it facilitates recruitment, on boarding, training, and, most of all, teamwork by creation of internal digital networks.
Therefore, digital transformation must not be seen just as a simple choice of tools but as a real HR issue that concerns both people's skills and their work processes. While for some, the transition is quite natural and intuitive, for others it's a real sinecure and requires a profound change in habits. And very often the lack of digital skills goes unnoticed.
DSBPGovernance brings together six partners from six European regions facing the same issue at all administration levels but in different stages of digital skills implementation.
Objective
The aim is to develop, on the basis of each member's experience and good practice, a methodology for assessing, training and monitoring the digital skills of public employees that will be applied by the partners in their own administration as they go along, refined on the basis of experience and lessons learned, in order to draw up a global framework of digital competences for public employees.
The project’s overall objective is to enhance public governance by improving digital skills, digital literacy and digital sovereignty among public employees.