Empower: Skills & Talent for a Digital Society & Economy

This is a plain text version of the Chapter 8 summary of the "Digital Ireland – Connecting our People, Securing our Future" report. Read the full report.

Through an inclusive and transparent approach, we will ensure all groups in society are supported and empowered to embrace AI adoption and thrive in a digital society. We will equip our workforce with cutting-edge skills; we will foster widespread digital skills, and deep societal trust and literacy; and we will support workers to navigate the impacts of potential job displacement, including through agile, accessible and fitfor- purpose upskilling and reskilling opportunities.

We will achieve this through:

• A new Roadmap for Technology Skills of the Future to ensure our skills ecosystem remains responsive and future-focused
• A new National Skills Observatory to analyse labour market dynamics and skills development across all skills needs, enabling the identification of gaps in provision, and development of additional skills initiatives
• A new online AI Skilling Platform, and nationwide Digital & AI skilling campaign to enhance awareness of opportunities available
• A focus on the continued digital transformation of the tertiary education system
• A commitment to ensuring that all learners acquire the basic digital skills, digital literacy skills, and media literacy skills needed to thrive in an AI-driven world, across curricula at all levels
• A National Conversation on AI and research to support public engagement and informed debate and build public trust.