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🏖 📖 Summer readings: second report on the State of the #Digital Decade 🔎 It's comprehensive overview of the progress made in the quest to achieve the digital objectives and targets set for 2030 by the Digital Decade Policy Programme (#DDPP). This year's report is accompanied by an analysis of the national Digital Decade strategic roadmaps presented by Member States. ❗Analysis shows that, in the current scenario, the collective efforts of Member States will fall short of the #EU's level of ambition. The identified gaps include the need for additional investments, both at EU and national levels, in particular in the areas of #digitalskills, high-quality #connectivity, uptake of #AI and #data analytics by enterprises, #semiconductor production and #startup ecosystems: 🔸 EU is far from achieving the connectivity targets set by the DDPP: high-quality #5G networks today only reach 50% of the EU's territory 🔸Uptake of AI, #cloud and/or #bigdata by European companies was also well below the Digital Decade target of 75%. Under current trends, only 64% of businesses will use cloud, 50% big data and only 17% AI by 2030 🔸Digital skills targets set by the Digital Decade are still far from being achieved, with only 55.6% of the EU population having at least basic digital skills ❔And how about e-Lithuania? We can see some positive trends and areas of improvement: 🔹 Notable progress in increasing the level of digital skills of its population (improved by 4.1% in the last year; but still slightly below the EU average 55.6%) and the number of ICT specialists in employment (up from 4.4% to 4.9%, just above an EU average of 4.8%) 🔹Areas of improvement: although Lithuania counts on 98.9% of the populated areas covered with basic 5G, in 2023 there was a limited dynamic in the deployment of gigabit connectivity, with very high-capacity networks (VHCN) and Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) remaining at 78.1%, compared to an EU average of 78.8% and 64% respectively. Lithuania shows a mixed performance on the share of enterprises making use of AI, cloud or data analytics (53.5% vs 54.6% in the EU) and overall there is room to improve. Gaps remain in particular with regards to the uptake of cloud (33.6% vs. 38.9% in the EU) and AI (4.9% vs 8% in the EU). ℹ Full report 👉 https://lnkd.in/dm2atymb
