Denmark - National Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition
The Danish Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition (‘DSJC Danmark – for digitale kompetencer og job’) is a multi-stakeholder alliance focused on tackling the digital skills gap, promoting life-long learning, and communicating ways of real-life practices and usage of offerings, services, and resources. In 2018 the Danish IT Society (Dansk IT) and its Committee for Digital Competences made the commitment to be connection point for the Danish National Coalition.
The Danish IT Society is currently responsible for coordinating the Coalition's contributions, initiatives, activities, and projects on digital skills and careers in emerging as well as ‘old’ digital technologies. Over the years the National Coalition has developed and gathered a number of times. Members of the Coalition are individuals or representatives of Academia, the education sector, industry, public and not-for-profit sector with the mission to unite, strengthen and develop the skills and expertise of IT Users and IT Professionals in Denmark and to promote and support IT in areas where it creates value for the Danish society.
National coalition details
The overall purpose of the Coalition is to strengthen digital skills throughout the Danish population; and to succeed in:
- Identifying activities related to digital skills carried out by the members of the Coalition or others, regional or nationwide, and mutually reinforcing their impact.
- Raising overall awareness about digital skills and digital literacy amongst policymakers, organizations and citizens (joining forces when relevant with other actors, associations, organizations, initiatives, and so forth).
- Plan, develop and promote the content from the national platform with regards to assessing, learning, testing of, as well as talking about digital skills.
Representatives of Academia and the Education sector, Industry, the Public Sector, and Not-for-Profit Sector make up the Danish National Coalition: Whereas the original line-up included the Agency for Digitisation, National Agency for IT and Learning, University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Center for Digital Dannelse, the not-for-profit organization Data for Good Foundation, and more, over the years others have been included:
