THE DIGITAL THIRD AGE«ALL MEN BY NATURE DESIRE KNOWLEDGE»

Agenda • introduction

• eInclution- datas (statistics) for Norway population 50+

• the actors in eInclution

• presentation of Seniornett who, what, where, how

Introduction

• Norway in the forefront

• Digital exclusion a serious barrier

• Lack of …………….

eInclution in Norway

Some datas/statistics population 45+

• eInclusion is depends on

– Objective parameters e.g. age, education

– Subjective factors e.g. motivation, perception of need

AAL - 85 projects in 2012

• ICT based solutions for Prevention and Management of Chronic Conditions of Elderly People – 23 projects

• ICTbased solutions for Advancement of Social Interaction of Elderly People – 29 projects

• ICT-based Solutions for Advancement of Older Persons’ Independence and Participation in the “Self-Serve Society – 23 projects

• ICT-based solutions for advancement of older persons’ mobility – 20 projects

• Many projects that interact - coordinated??

eInclusion eHealth eGovernment

PIA Grundtvig eMeeGovMon

MobileSage T&T Net UserTestingTool

Senior Gamer eSenior Secure

• To much talking, to little action!?

Welfare technology

a new challenge

a different approach

• NGO’s

– Just in cooperation with Seniornett Norge

–Seniornett is the catalyst

–Organisations based on volunteerism

–Organisations as Red Cross, National Association for Public Health, Voluntary centers and others

• Municipalities

– Adult education is regulated by the Adult Education Act (1976) and the Education Act (1998)

– A new law on non-formal adult learning was introduced in 2010, to regulate organized learning activities outside the formal sector

– Municipalities are responsible

• Labour offices– Formally don’t have and therefor won’t

take responsibility

– They are relying on employers to educate there employees in digital skills

– For the unemployed there is no statutory regulation for education in basic digital skills

• Educational organizations

– private educational organizations

– expensive

– disappointing success rate

• Lifelong learning program – Grundtvig

– Seniornett involved as a partner (Board member Seniornett Norge)

– Seniors in the knowledge society

– Participation with 9 other countries including Czech University of Life sciences Prague, Czech Republic

– Significant prior experience in training and coaching of seniors in IT usage

SUMMARIZED

• Modern day dyslectics

• To this point, Seniornett Norge has operated within Norway exclusively –

except for participation in several EU-projects.

Use of internetPercentage of population age 65-74

Users of the internet at least once every 3 month

2003 2006 2011 20120

20

40

60

80

100

120

80 83

95 96

52

66

90 93

24 28

65 69

10 13

33 35

45-5455-6465-7475+

Users of the internet at least

once every day

2003 2006 2011 20120

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

43

57

8489

24

48

7178

10

19

48 50

39

24 25

45-5455-6465-7475+

Seniornett Norge

- Seniornett Norge is an ideal, independent non-profit organization that works for the active participation of seniors in todays digital information society

- We want all seniors in Norway to be active users of the Internet!

• In 1996 an Telenor project «Seniors and Information Technology» was started, that inspired to start another project which was called ”Internet Senior”

• The project had as a goal to educate small groups of seniors, age 55+, who then again would educate new groups of seniors

• And early 1998 a ”Seniornett Norge” board was formed

• One of Seniornett Norges greatest enthusiasts Bodil Brøgger became the first chairperson

Seniornett

Norgewasborn

• 1998: The seniornett website was created

• In 1999 Seniornett Norge took the initiative to organize a one day seminar as a pilot project. This project was called the: ”SeniorSurf day”

• Seniornett-newspaper since 2001.

20062012(now)Number of clubs 20 170Volunteer workers 100

850Employees 3 6Seniors instructed/yr 1.000 28.000Annual budget (€) 0,25 m 0,75 m

Seniornett Norge: Then and now

Why? - of Norway’s 5,0 mill inhabitants, 26% are over the age of 55

- of these 1,3 mill seniors, 37 % or485 000 of them have no

knowledge of PCs or Internet

Some facts about Norway compared to the Czech

RepublicNorway Czech Republic

• Area 358,252 km2 78,866 km2

• Population 5,038,100 10,512,200

• Density 13 /km2

134 /km2

• Population 65+ 15,8%15,2%

• Population 45-64 22,5%20,4%

Our ”tools”:• Motivate – Train – Maintain

– SeniorSurf day– Newspaper, Web portal– Cooperations with large NGOs (Red

Cross etc.)– Clubs and meeting places where the

seniors live– Tailormade training - just for seniors– Bootstrap system: Train-the-trainer!

• Clubs or Learning centers are the key to success

– They are based on respect, dignity and avoiding stigmatization

– There main goal is to motivate, inspire seniors to start using the internet

– They have to be aware of things like fear of teknologi, knobphobia, automagic and other preconceptions

• Points of discussion for training centers– Organization– Finances– Instructors– Meeting agendas/topics– Technical – Courses og guidance– Why a central organization for the

training centers

Not only seniors value the work of Seniornett Norge

Rosing Competence Award 2006 Award from The Norwegian Computer Society

EU eInclusion Award – Ageing Well Finalist in Vienna december 2008

The Norwegian Association for Adult LearningThis award goes to a person, organization or institutionfor outstanding efforts to make knowledge and learning available to all.

Seniornett participates in : E-NO FALLS EU Thematic network

MobileSage EU AAL Grundtvig EU Lifelong

Learning

T&Tnet EU AAL NetPOWER* NRC, SINTEF Secure Internet based Care

Technology DIGNIO

E-senior Safety at home

Seniorgamer Dementia prevention project

- among others

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