18 Amendments of Elisabetta GUALMINI related to 2021/0293(COD)
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Digital skills, basic and advanced, are essential to reinforce the collective resilience of the Union’s society. Digitally empowered and capable citizens will be able to take advantage of the opportunities of the Digital Decade. Moreover, digital training and education should support a workforce in which people can acquire specialised digital skills to get quality jobs and rewarding careers in much greater numbers than today, with convergence between women and men. It is necessary to have a strong gender perspective for the digital transition in order to ensure the equal participation of women in digital matters, amongst others by equipping them with the necessary skills, improving their digital literacy and skills and making the digital environment female friendly. In addition, an essential enabler for taking advantage of the benefits of digitisation, for further technological developments and for Europe’s digital leadership is a sustainable digital infrastructure for connectivity, microelectronics and the ability to process vast data. Excellent and secure connectivity for everybody and everywhere in Europe including in rural and remote areas40 is needed. Societal needs for upload and download bandwidth are constantly growing. By 2030, networks with gigabit speeds should become available at accessiffordable conditions for all those who need or wish to have such capacity. Moreover, microprocessors which are already today at the start of most of the key, strategic value chains are expected to be in even higher demand in the future, in particular the most innovative ones. Climate neutral highly secure edge node guaranteeing access to data services with low latency wherever businesses are located and quantum capacity are also expected to be critical enablers. _________________ 40 Long-term Vision for the EU’s Rural Areas. COM(2021) 345 final.
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The Digital Economy and Society Index (‘DESI’)41 and the Women in Digital ('WiD') Scoreboard should become a part of the report on the state of the Digital Decade and should be used to monitor the progress towards the digital targets, including the ones to close the digital gender gap by 2030. This monitoring should include an analysis of the indicators measuring progress at Member States’ level, national policies and initiatives aimed at reaching the objectives of this Decision and the targets as well as horizontal and thematic analyses tracking the digital transformation of European economies and a ranking of Member States progress therein. In particular, DESI’s dimensions and indicators should be aligned with digital targets set out in this Decision. For each digital target, key performance indicators (‘KPIs) should be set out in implementing acts to be adopted by the Commission. The KPIs should be updated when necessary for continued effective monitoring and to take account of technological developments. The data collection mechanism within Member States should be reinforced to present a thorough state of play on the progress towards the digital targets, as well as information on the relevant policies, programmes, and initiatives at national level. Based on the reviews and where needed, the Commission should prepare, in consultation with the Member States, a roadmap to set out future data collection needs. . In defining the DESI, the Commission should rely largely on official statistics collected in different Union surveys on the information society42 . The Commission should use specific studies to collect data for those relevant indicators that are not measured in the Union surveys. _________________ 41 DESI is an annual set of analyses and measurement indicators, which since 2014 have been used to monitor Europe’s overall progress and to benchmark individual Member States’ progress in digital, feeding into the European Semester process and the country specific recommendations. 42 Regulation (EC) No 1006/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 808/2004 concerning Community statistics on the information society (OJ L 286, 31.10.2009, p. 31–35).
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) In order to ensure transparency and public participation, the Commission should engage with all interested stakeholders. To that end, the Commission should closely cooperate with social partners and other stakeholders including private and public actors, such as bodies governed by public laws of the educational or health care sector, and consult them on measures to accelerate the digital transformation at Union level. The involvement of stakeholders would be important at the level of Member States as well, in particular when adopting their national Digital Decade strategic roadmaps and their adjustments.
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 29 a (new)
Recital 29 a (new)
(29 a) If it is to be successful, the digital transition should go hand-in-hand with improvements as regards democracy at work, good governance, social inclusion and good-quality public services.
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 29 b (new)
Recital 29 b (new)
(29 b) Trade Unions access to the workplace and the workers themselves, including where work is carried out digitally has to be ensured. All workers, including those in the digital economy, have the right to collective bargaining and to take collective action.
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 29 c (new)
Recital 29 c (new)
(29 c) The cooperation between governments, social partners, academics and other stakeholders, regarding the digital transition, including research and innovation in digital technologies, is important so that all social and human aspects are taken into account. Gender balance is needed in order to ensure the full participation of women in the design of the digital economy and a just digital transition.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 29 d (new)
Recital 29 d (new)
(29 d) Corporate investment in formal and informal training and life-long learning is of crucial importance in order to support the just transition towards the digital economy. Companies have the responsibility of providing adequate re- skilling and up-skilling for all their employees concerned in order for them to learn how to use digital tools and to work with co-bots and other new technologies, thereby adapting to changing needs of the labour market and staying in employment.
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 29 e (new)
Recital 29 e (new)
(29 e) A common European approach with regard to the ethical aspects of the digital transition is needed. Any regulatory framework in this regard must be adequate and based on a comprehensive impact assessment in order to avoid hampering future innovation and job creation. Special attention should be paid to new forms of work, such as gig platform work, resulting from the application of new technologies, in order to ensure decent working and employment conditions in the digital economy and the digitalisation of different economic sectors and professions.
Amendment 106 #
(29 f) The new Skills Agenda for Europe must address the challenges of adapting and acquiring qualifications and knowledge, in view of the ecological and digital transition, including ethical aspects. Developers, programmers, decision-makers and companies should be aware of their ethical responsibility. It is important to ensure that end users and consumers are provided with comprehensive information, that there are regular exchanges between all relevant stakeholders in this regard and also that a human review can be requested in all human resource decisions in order to have an automated decision reversed.
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 29 g (new)
Recital 29 g (new)
(29 g) Education and continuous learning are important to develop the qualifications necessary in the digital age and to tackle digital exclusion. It is necessary to discuss potential opportunities and risks of digitalisation in this context. Member States should invest in high quality, responsive and inclusive education, vocational training and life- long learning systems as well as re- skilling and up-skilling policies for workers in sectors that are potentially severely affected by the digital transition. It is important to provide the current and future workforce with the necessary literacy, numeracy and digital skills as well as competences in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) and cross-cutting soft skills, such as critical thinking, creativity and entrepreneurship, with special attention to the inclusion of disadvantaged groups in this regard.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 29 h (new)
Recital 29 h (new)
(29 h) The digital transition should not reinforce gender inequalities and stereotypes by transforming analogue biases and prejudices into digital ones through algorithms. People from diverse backgrounds, including women, young people, people of colour and people with disabilities have to be included in the development and use of the digital services. These services should be accessible for all, based on the design for all principle, and the digital development should be an essential tool for inclusion.
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 29 i (new)
Recital 29 i (new)
(29 i) Science, innovation and R&D will be indispensable to attain the objectives of an inclusive digital transformation and European digital sovereignty. Therefore, more investment in research, innovation, science and the scientific community is needed, as they are the driving force of the technological and digital revolution. At the same time, it should be ensured that neither people nor regions are left behind.
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 29 j (new)
Recital 29 j (new)
(29 j) Promoting the creation and expansion of digital knowledge and support the research programmes and networks created among European universities in order to help European businesses and entrepreneurs to attract the best talent and become the vanguard of digital innovation worldwide. Skills shortages and mismatches can be prevented by establishing better links between the education and training systems and companies, by improving working and employment conditions as well as by investments of undertakings in skills and qualifications of their staff. The public sector should ensure a fair digital transformation and promote social innovation.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 29 k (new)
Recital 29 k (new)
(29 k) The DESI index shows that 90% of jobs require basic digital skills while 42% of EU citizens lack basic digital skills.[1] In addition, the Women in Digital Scoreboard, part of the DESI index, shows that only 19% of ICT specialists and about one third of science, technology, engineering and mathematics graduates are female, therefor there is still a substantial gender gap in specialist digital skills [2] Participation of girls and women in the field of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) must be actively promoted through concrete policy action to foster their full participation and inclusion in the digital economy, as they only represent 36% of STEM graduates [3], despite the fact that girls outperform boys in digital literacy [4] [1] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single- market/en/digital-economy-and-society- index-desi [2] https://digital- strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/women- digital-scoreboard-2021 [3] https://op.europa.eu/en/publication- detail/-/publication/9540ffa1-4478-11e9- a8ed-01aa75ed71a1/language-en [4] 2018 InternationalComputer and InformationLiteracy Study (ICILS)
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) reinforce Member States’ collective resilience and bridge the digital divide notably by promoting basic and specialised digital skills for all, with a particular focus on disadvantaged groups and gender equality, and fostering the development of high-performing digital education and training systems through vocational and professional training, reskilling, upskilling and lifelong learning;
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) reinforce Member States’ collective resilience and bridge the digital divide notably by ensuring decent working and employment conditions to attract skilled workers and by reminding companies of the responsibility to invest in up-skilling and reskilling to ensure their employees are fit for the digital transition;
Amendment 267 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) improving the cooperation of the Union and of, Member States and social partners in the achievement of the objectives of the Digital Decade;
Amendment 268 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(a a) promoting digital skills for citizens and workers through high-quality education, training and life-long learning, including employer funded reskilling and upskilling of their workforce;