In this roundtable the following topics and questions will be transversally discussed around digital inclusion and national and regional approaches, namely:

• Understand the context and specificities of national and regional main achievements, progress and most relevant impacts and outcomes of public policy in the field of DI.
• Understand the trends of priorities and main challenges of the public policy in the field of DI
• Explore the relationship between evaluation and replicability of good practices and evaluation of public policy and how it is connected with the funding of digital inclusion.
• Understand the impact of COVID19 in the public policy (re) definition and implementation.
• Draw and discuss future possible scenarios of public policy in the field of digital inclusion.
• Explore links between the European activities and priorities with local, regional and national actions.
• Reflections around the usefulness of MEDICI for policy makers

Speakers:

Luísa Ribeiro Lopes, Coordinator of the Axis for Inclusion of the National Digital Skills Initiative INCODE.2030, Portugal

Tania Maamary , Digital Inclusion Coordinator for the Brussels Capital Region. BRIC, Brussels Regional Informatics Center

Sandra Spjuth, Regional Digitalization Coordinator, Region Örebro County, Sweden

Adam Micklewthwaite , Director of Digital Social Inclusion, Good Things Foundation, UK