Annual reports Annual Report 2017 | Page 8

8 INFLUENCING PUBLIC POLICY ALL DIGITAL’s policy and advocacy efforts aim at raising the profile of digital competence centres and making the case for recognition of digital competences obtained in non-formal settings such as these centres We advocate that digital competence centres are ideally suited to: help fill the growing gap between the demand for, and supply of, a digitally competent workforce, the needs of citizens in 21 st century, in which 90% of jobs will require digital skills at least at basic level, and where public services, health, education and leisure opportunities are increasingly being digitised. In 2017, ALL DIGITAL led or contributed to EU policy transformations in the fields of education, employment, digital technologies, citizenship and innovation. We have addressed policy initiatives in those fields through different formal and informal ways: