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GOW 2017 Report
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GOW 2017 focus days:
  Monday, March 27: National E-skills Coalition in
Latvia: 4 years’ results and new action plan. The
campaign started with a high-level Policy opening
event, moderated by Digital Champion of Latvia
Mr. Reinis Zitmanis. Two ministers, the Head of EU
representative Office in Latvia as well as ICT sector
industry leaders participated in event, representing
the National E-skills Coalition of Latvia. Event had
a high media presence and was broadcast online
across Latvia with more than 1,000 connections.
  Tuesday, March 28: Digital security day. It was one of
the top themes; three special seminars and online
broadcasts were organized to reflect information
about ICT security. Online discussion with Digital
security experts from Ministry of Defense of Latvia,
CERT.LV, Bank of Latvia, Digital Security Alliance and
LIKTA members had more than 1,200 followers via
online broadcast.
  Wednesday, March 29: Digital skills for young people;
Digital skills in Education
  Thursday, March 30: Digital skills for entrepreneurs;
  Friday, March 31: Digital skills for e-Services.
All the week online tests and competitions took place,
young people being the most active. More than 5,000
participants took part in tests – Skillage, Online4EDU,
SME’s security tests, career consultations tests and others.
In total 638 events were organized all across Latvia with
24,353 participants. Over 1 million people were reached
through online and offline media.
GOW17 in Latvia: Digital skills for future digital jobs
GOW17: Focus on Digital security and Cybersecurity in Latvia
LITHUANIA
http://www.getonlineweek.eu/lithuania/
ONLINE WITH CONFIDENCE AND BETTER SKILLS!
It was the 8th year association “Langas į ateitį”
participated in the Get Online Week campaign. The
message spread through all the activities this year raised
awareness on safe technology and the internet usage,
managing one’s (digital) identity, skills for the usage of
eServices and new skills for jobs.
More than 350 activities were conducted for 1351 people
by 157 organisations in collaboration with National
Digital Coalition members and a lot of partners including
State Employment Agency, Youth job centres, Lithuanian
Banking Association, National Library of Lithuania,
Lithuanian Consumer Institute, IT company ATEA Baltic,
Swedbank, Barclays operational center, initiative”__
būsiu“, Lithuanian academic network LITNet, Safer
Internet project.
Events can be divided into separate themes: