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The national programme for digital literacy aims to overcome the digital divide, which hinders over-sixties from taking advantage of the potential provided by new technologies.
“Grandparents on the Internet - Clicking for Company” features students that act as tutors to the elders throughout various Italian regions.
The memorandum of understanding is based on the right to lifelong learning which is also the object of the popular act proposal promoted by Spi-Cgil, Auser, Federazione Lavoratori Conoscenza Cgil and the Sindacato Pensionati Italiani Cgil with the intent of doubling, over the course of three years, the number of adults participating in learning activities.
“This memorandum”, explains Spi-Cgil National Secretary Lucio Saltini, “aims to promote the diffusion of skills that we define as vital to provide elderly citizens with the possibility to use tools that will help them to live better. We have formed a perfect team with the Fondazione Mondo Digitale to pursue this goal.”
The Grandparents on the Internet Project, designed by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, has taught computer basics to more than 7500 grandparents, who were tutored by 4000 young tutors and coordinated by 500 teacher coordinators.
- "Grandparent on the Internet – Clicking for Company" at the National Meeting of Spi-Cgil [Photo Gallery]
