Digital literacy has become an essential life skill, which - if absent or underdeveloped - becomes a barrier to social integration and personal development.
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Digital literacy is needed by all citizens, for example in order to:
- ensure better service access and use
- ease citizens' daily life burdens (such as engaging with public administrations)
- obtain better access to education, training, work, and jobs
- improve each citizen's personal capacity (quality of life and life chances)
- enhance citizens' social networks and participation.
As part of the effort to put digital literacy on the European agenda and promote eInclusion via stronger digital literacy skills, the European Commission launched the project "Supporting Digital Literacy: Public Policies and Stakeholders’ Initiatives" in 2007. The project was funded by DG Information Society and Media and the Danish Technological Institute was contracted to implement the project. The project ended in the Spring of 2009. Read about the results.
To validate the project findings and analytical work, a digital literacy expert group also was established, which met in Brussels on a number of occassions during the project period and who put forward their own set of 
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