The project Digital Skills and Knowledge for PA (DSKPA) aimed at promoting digital skills and literacy within the Italian public sector. The Italian government has demonstrated its commitment to the digitisation process through the definition of the National Strategy Plan for digitisation (of the country), recently approved by the Ministry for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition – in which the project DSKPA was included.
The project DSKPA aims to encourage digital transformation processes and to improve the level of public services, allowing civil servants to increase their digital skills by accessing customised training plans based on a structured and homogeneous training gaps assessment. Furthermore, it promotes self-recognition and skills mapping activities in administrations, to favour more effective personnel management policies.
First, DSKPA developed a shared and common ground of knowledge and skills within the public sector administrations, covering technological innovation and digitisation issues. Second, the project arranged a digital platform designed for any public administration to assess public servants’ gaps in digital competences. Third, the programme incentivised the reduction in these gaps by supporting the definition and implementation of ad hoc training paths. Therefore, public administrative capacity would be reinforced, and the pace of the digital transformation accelerated.