Press Release: Kroes applauds launch of Lithuanian National Digital Coalition

On 7 November 2013, 11 partner organisations and associations signed a Memorandum of Understanding officially launching the Lithuanian National Digital Coalition in Vilnius at ICT 2013, Europe's largest digital innovation event. The Lithuanian Coalition aims to reduce the shortage of IT professionals, to encourage training programmes via a life-long learning approach, and to augment awareness about the importance of digital literacy and ICT skills.

At the ICT 2013 Event Commissioner Neelie Kroes gave a speech on big data and online content.

ESO: Background information: Digital Woman, Girls of the Year named at ICT 2013 http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-digital-woman-girls-of-the-year-named-at-ict-2013/

European Commission: RAPID: Speech, SPEECH/13/893: Big data for Europe http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-893_en.pdf

European Commission: RAPID: Memo, MEMO/13/965: FACTSHEET: What is big data? http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-965_en.pdf

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