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15/04/2013
Further Allocation Of Grants Announced For Digital Skills Training
Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte, today announced he is making a further allocation of grants available for digital skills training under the BenefIT scheme.
The BenefIT 4 scheme will support the National Digital Strategy (NDS), which will be published shortly, building on the very positive outcomes of the previous BenefIT schemes.
Speaking as he opened AIB's new advanced digital banking store, called The LAB (Learning About Banking) in Dundrum Town Centre, Dublin, Minister Rabbitte said: "In order to help citizens get the skills they need to avail of internet services, I am today announcing a call for proposals from community organisations to help us deliver a scheme for digital skills training, called BenefIT 4. Under the scheme, my Department will spend €1.4 million over the next 12 months to support the digitally excluded to get on-line. We have already providing training for almost 90,000 people under previous benefit schemes but the work is by no means finished. My announcement today will intensify progress in this area."
(CD)
The BenefIT 4 scheme will support the National Digital Strategy (NDS), which will be published shortly, building on the very positive outcomes of the previous BenefIT schemes.
Speaking as he opened AIB's new advanced digital banking store, called The LAB (Learning About Banking) in Dundrum Town Centre, Dublin, Minister Rabbitte said: "In order to help citizens get the skills they need to avail of internet services, I am today announcing a call for proposals from community organisations to help us deliver a scheme for digital skills training, called BenefIT 4. Under the scheme, my Department will spend €1.4 million over the next 12 months to support the digitally excluded to get on-line. We have already providing training for almost 90,000 people under previous benefit schemes but the work is by no means finished. My announcement today will intensify progress in this area."
(CD)
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