Agenda: areas, objectives, and goals. (I) Inclusive digital society
The development of the digital society has experienced an unprecedented acceleration during 2020 and several dimensions of the persons ´lives were sustained on the basis of digital solutions. These changes also present urgent social challenges for integration and full citizenship development.
Objective I. Digital citizenship. To ensure that all persons can acquire skills and competencies to exercise their rights and obligations in the digital environment, as a fundamental space for socialisation and participation.
- To foster the development and digital skills and competencies in all the persons through a national and interinstitutional strategy and awareness campaign.
- To incorporate the teaching of digital skills and competencies in formal education through the inclusion of content in all educational levels and with an emphasis on the centres with high social and educational vulnerability levels.
- To advance towards digital citizenship participation, strengthening and broadening the existing participation spaces and processes, at a national and local level.
Responsible institutions:
National Public Education Administration
Agency for Electronic Government and Information Society, and institutions.
Digital Citizenship Group
Ministry of Education and Culture
Ministry of Industry, Energy, and Mining
Ceibal Plan
Universities
Objective II. Integration into the community. To take advantage of digital technologies as a tool for social integration, promoting actions to favour access to knowledge and services by the different segments of the population, mainly those with greater levels of disconnection.
- To implement combined pedagogical formats in all formal educational levels, which, with mediation of technology, guarantee quality learning and contribute to the integration of centres, families, and the community.
- To develop a digital strategy for seniors, that strengthens their socio-cultural integration, through the access and appropriation of digital content and resources.
- To achieve the digital accessibility of the services and information provided by the State and priority sectors of private activity and to promote actions to monitor their compliance.
- To enhance the digital adoption of health services, developing outpatient prescribing with digital prescription, integrating the summary of the patient into the electronic medical record, and updating the communication processes of the sanitary authority with healthcare providers.
- To design a digital inclusion strategy for rural population, with an emphasis on rural women.
- To maximise the territorial deployment of the National Police, implementing a virtual station, with digital access to the services provided by the offices of the Ministry of Interior, available 24/7 and from anywhere.
- To democratise the access to culture, reaching the whole country, through the development of the program Culture at Home, with digital contents that combine visual arts, performing arts, cinema, audio-visual content, lyrics, and music, for kids, teenagers, and adults.
- To facilitate the access to educational scholarships through online integration of all national and international offer available in the country.
- To improve the equality in the allocation of social benefits, optimising the quality and integration of the information, and implementing processes for identifying and locating beneficiaries and services.
- To promote digital diplomacy incorporating technological tools to strengthen consular duties and improve the access to services and relation with the diaspora.
Responsible institutions:
National Public Education Administration
Agency for Electronic Government and Information Society, and institutions
Social Welfare Bank
Ministry of Social Development
Ministry of Education and Culture
Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries
Ministry of Industry, Energy, and Mining
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Public Health
Ministry of Interior
Ceibal Plan
Universities