European Software Industry: looking for a competitive advantage, European Software Association White Paper, 12 June 2008 (e-skills chapter, pg. 7)
CEN ICT Skills workshop - The beginning work on eCareer Services project and ICT Certification project, 14 May 2008, Paris
ICT and Development, Examples of successful partnerships among stakeholders in developing countries, European Internet Foundation, October 2007
Oracle Highlights the Need for Increased Focus on ICT Skills to Drive Innovation in Europe, by Sergio Giacoletto, Executive Vice President, Oracle EMEA, 28 February 2008, Brussels
IT STAR
IT STAR, Summer 2007, "Vocational Education and Training: The Call for Multi-Stakeholder Partnership by Hugo Lueders"
e-Skills for the 21st Century: Fostering Competiveness, Growth and Jobs - Andre Richier, 21 November 2007, Brussels
"Gartner warns of IT skills shortage" by Iain Thomson, 8 February 2008
"Partnerships are needed to make IT an exciting option" by Gordon Frazer, 11 February 2008
Moving Forward and Implementing a Long-Term e-Skills Agenda in Europe, 23 January 2008
IT skills: Big names help youngsters press right buttons, 24 Jan. 2008
"Adapting to a flattening world" by Henning Kagermann, 25 October 2007
e-Skills ILB Press Release - 7 Sept 2007
European Commission e-Skills press release 7 Sept 2007
European Commission e-Skills Communication
ICT Task Force Competitiveness Council Conclusions - 21 May 2007
ICT Task Force Commission Working Document - 20 April 2007
ICT Task Force Report - November 2006
Task-Force on ICT Sector Competitiveness and ICT Uptake (WG5), October 2006
Industry leaders join force to fight digital illiteracy
Industry calls for urgent ICT capacity building in Europe - October 2006
eSkills group urges European governments to work with industry to speed up efforts to prepare the EU workforce and citizens for the knowledge-based economy

e-Skills Research and Studies

Download the video message of Commissioner Ms Viviane Reding, DG Information Society and Media, at WSIS, 2005, Tunis

e-Skills documents

• Multi-stakeholder partnerships for e-skills in Europe, January 2008
• "eSKILLS PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS"
• European Model Law - Skills and Technology Retraining For Employability
• e-Skills industry and other policy declarations
  • Barcelona 2001
  • Athens 2002
  • Hamburg 2003
  • Vienna 2004
  • Tunis 2005
  • European e-Skills Forum "Thessaloniki Declaration" - October 2006
  • e-Skills ILB Policy Declaration 2008

IT Education Library

• e-Skills UK Video
• How skilled are Europeans in using computers and the internet?, Eurostat - June 2006
• Networking Skills in Europe: Will an Increasing Shortage Hamper Competitiveness in the Global Market? - September 2005
• European-Wide Recognition of e-Skills Certification from an Industry Perspective
• "Update on main e-skills initiatives at the EU level" - June 2005
• The situation and the role of e-Skills industry certification in Europe - September 2004
• "Thessaloniki Declaration" - output from the September 2004 e-Skills Conference
• Final synthesis report of the "European e-Skills Forum" - September 2004

Other e-Skills documents

• Computer Industry "faces crisis" - November 2006
• Skills gap hurts technology boom in India - October 2006
• Industry leadership will build ICT skills, says AIIA - June 2006
• IDC Study: The Economic Impact of IT and Software on the European Union, Croatia, Norway and Switzerland
• Appendix to the IDC Study
• Building Australian ICT Skills - Report of the ICT skills foresighting orking group - May 2006
• Speech of Senator Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Australian Government: "Information Technology: Transforming the Australian Economy" - May 2006
• Speech of Senator Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Australian Government: "Information Technology: Transforming the Australian Economy" - May 2006
• "A morass that immobilizes Europe's IT workers" - October 25, 2005
• "IT expert shortage looming" - October 7, 2005
• Forrester Research Report - "Europe's Looming IT Skills Deficit", 6 July 2005
• The Cost of Ignorance in the Information Society study, AICA, Italy, 2003
• The ICT Skills Gap workshop, Brussels 10-11 May 2001

• Global Alliance for ICT and Development
• Internet Governance Forum
• Business Action to Support the Information Society (Basis)
• Fondazione Politecnico di Milano
• HARMONISE
• DG Enterprise - ICT Skills Section
• International Commission for Workforce Development
• Symphony Solutions
• GeSCI (Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative)
• Intel Education
• PICTEA (Peoples Information and Communication Technology Engineering Academy)
• Netconcept
• IT Pro Australia
• Omar Dengo Foundation
• GELC (Global Education Learning Community)
• CompTIA Tech Career Compass
• CompTIA Certification Programs
• CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies)
• EAEA (European Association for Education of Adults)
• e-Skills Forum
• Virtual Community on e-Skills
• Global Knowledge Partnership
• CEDEFOP
• European Committee for Standardization
• CEN/ISSS
• Euractiv e-Skills Dossier
• e-skills UK
• National Cristina Foundation
• The McMahan Center
• UK Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills
• Partnership for 21st century skills