Last Thursday, September 26, the Xarxa Punt TIC Network experienced a new virtual meeting. This time, the theme was the 'Més Digitals' program, which will promote the digital empowerment of more than 90,000 people through more than 9,000 courses that will be taught throughout the territory of Catalonia. In particular, the sixth virtual meeting of the year 2024 had around twenty participants, among them Esther Subias of the Shock Plan against the Digital Divide team of the Generalitat de Catalunya. First of all, Subias introduced the 'Més Digitals' program, financed by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the European NextGeneration funds and whose central objective is to accompany people with little digital knowledge in order to increase their digital rights.
Then, Subias detailed that the challenge was to train 90,295 people at risk of digital exclusion before the month of June 2026. Subias specified that a person at risk of digital exclusion was someone who had not achieved the skills minimums to develop in society. Subias commented that, unfortunately, financial resources were limited and that the 'More Digital' program had to be focused on a part of the population. In this sense, Subias specified that the focus would be on people over 60 years of age, with the aim of impacting 5% of this segment of the population of Catalonia. Subias announced that, nevertheless, a certain percentage would be reserved for other groups and commented that work was being done with the Department of Justice and the Department of Social Rights on possible agreements and collaborations to reach other groups that often did not enjoy training options such as, for example, people in prisons, newly arrived people or people with a dependency situation. Subias stated that the intention of the initiative was to open the door to curiosity and arouse the interest of the participants.
Next, Subias explained that 9,031 training proposals lasting fifteen hours would be promoted, face-to-face, free of charge and at three different levels: 'Discover the digital world (level A)', 'We move through the digital world (level B)' and 'We enter the digital world (level C)'. Subias specified that the trainers would go to the territory and dynamize the trainings over the course of four to ten weeks with one or two weekly two-hour sessions with small groups of five to fifteen people. Subias pointed out that upon completion of the training, a certificate of accreditation would be awarded to the participants.
Subsequently, Subias announced some possibilities for collaboration from the ICT Point Network: dissemination and information to citizens, transfer of a space for training with the following characteristics: room equipped with tables and chairs for fifteen participants and a trainer, wifi connectivity, space to project a presentation and projector and screen, and recruitment and selection of specific groups. Subias added that training was expected to begin in some territories during the month of November, but that the majority would start from the month of January. Finally, Subias listed some benefits for the TIC Punt Network: consolidating the TIC Punts as benchmarks in digital training in the territory, attracting new audiences to the TIC Punts, and complementing or increasing the TIC Punts' training offer. Finally, a round of questions was opened, where questions were asked about the assignment of the spaces, the importance of these initiatives or the recruitment of the participants.
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