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e-Skills and Standards — Prerequisites to Fully Exploit the Potential of ICT in Europe

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Information Systems and e-Business Technologies (UNISCON 2008)

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The paper highlights the importance of platforms such as CEN and takes in particular focus on ongoing developments in the area of ICT skills. The authors look at current activities and some of the challenges ahead of ongoing standardisation endeavours in the field of ICT skills, qualification and training in Europe. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) today forms already an integral part of all industrial and service markets through the integration of ICT in goods or service offers. The availability of the right skills is beyond doubts one of the key success factors and important milestone on our way towards the knowledge-based economy. Knowledge, skills and competences are the cornerstone of Europe’s competitiveness. ICT has always been subject to continuous advancement and change. Due to the explosion of innovations in ICT, the shortening technology life-cycles and newly emerging trends, ICT professionalism undergoes constant change and requires regular updating of acquired knowledge, skills and competences.

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  1. Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, University of Karlsruhe (TH), D-76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Wolffried Stucky & Peter Weiß

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  1. School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, Private Bag 756, Wellington, New Zealand

    Roland Kaschek

  2. Institute of Applied Informatics Research Group Application Engineering, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Universitätsstraße 65-67, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

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Stucky, W., Weiß, P. (2008). e-Skills and Standards — Prerequisites to Fully Exploit the Potential of ICT in Europe. In: Kaschek, R., Kop, C., Steinberger, C., Fliedl, G. (eds) Information Systems and e-Business Technologies. UNISCON 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78942-0_30

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