The Digital Frontier: A Deep Gap for Our Seniors

The pandemic has been a great catalyst for the explosive increase in the digitalization of our society, whether through the use of platforms to work remotely, attend classes, attend our health digitally, shop in the supermarket, among many other services that have been able to prevail and expand.
However, in this accelerated digitalization hides an important group of people for whom this labor, educational and everyday adaptation in general is a very demanding challenge. Currently, the absence of digital skills drastically reduces the chances of finding employment or generating a strengthening of independent work.
This phenomenon is especially complex for older adults, workers with less schooling and inhabitants of rural areas, all of whom, for various reasons, have not had the proximity or the opportunity to learn to function in digital environments in a good way.
The challenge, in this sense, is to open spaces for inclusion and learning for people who have had fewer possibilities regarding the development in the use of digital and computational tools.  We consider it necessary to address this problem in all age groups. Following the suggestions of the CNP, include the learning of skills from an early age, and thus also public investment in the training of people who go through the greatest conditions of vulnerability and precarious education and work.

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