Slovakia contains older tablets: However, they must first attend the training
Slovakia wants to spend tens of millions of euros on the recovery plan to improve the digital literacy of seniors. For this purpose, he buys them and gives them tablets.
However, this is not the goal of the project, the tablet should be a kind of reward for these seniors undergoing training. Veronika Remišová (For People), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Investment, Regional Development and Informatization, introduced TASR.
The Minister considers the improvement of digital skills of seniors and other groups of the population to be important for the success of the digital transformation in Slovakia. “Everyone must have equal access to its benefits, to state services, which will increasingly be in electronic form, to distance education or to telemedicine,” Remišová illustrated.
Giving away the tablets in the recovery plan project, which targets 170,000 seniors, is not the most important. “Free certified IT training for seniors is paramount to better understand the online world, its benefits and pitfalls.” The Minister explained that these trainings could be provided, for example, by computer science teachers in schools.
The tablets will then be just a reward for seniors for completing these trainings. According to her, the facilities will be specially adapted to the needs of seniors. For example, they will have a useful application there.
“We are preparing the whole project in cooperation with the Pensioners’ Union in Slovakia and other organizations, and it is already clear that the interest of seniors is huge,” Remišová added, adding that she plans to launch a pilot project for the first 1,000 applicants in the first half of next year.