e-Skills ; Measurement Skills deployed in the workforce measure ICT practitioner skills to build ICT infrastructure which supports the knowledge economy ICT user skills to complement other competences in ways which raise productivity

e-Skills ; Measurement Skills, qualifications and competences as the supply side measure Difficult to measure competences (or anything too technical) from labour force surveys Occupations as the demand side measure but in conventional frameworks such surveys make weaker predictions of skills Changing patterns of training new proprietary qualifications by the firms who build software and systems

e-Skills ; Measurement Software professionals people who build the software investment we count their activity as capital formation STILE makes it clear that: classifications are complex and inconsistently applied occupations arise and change very fast Better definition is essential should statistical system be looking at market based classifications through ‘job boards’? can we use IT to measure IT?

e-Skills ; Measurement e-Business or Advanced User skills ICT plus other competences is this where fastest growth is likely in the future? How to capture ICT skill as part of occupation classifications are complex and inconsistently applied suggest that only an automated stystem can keep up Deployment is what we want to measure ‘skills accounting’ across industries only possible in countries with strong statistical infrastructure another argument for ‘market based’ approach

e-Skills ; Measurement Will ECDL help EU firms to be ‘high users’?

e-Skills ; Measurement Competitive and social challenge in all three areas of the labour market ICT professionals Specialists for whom ICT is core ICT enabled service providers These are ‘globally competing’ occupations service occupations now open to international competition major expansion in trade, unevenly distributed Can better labour market statistics help us understand the opportunities as well as threats?