IT training: preparing the Future Internet

1.5 billion people worldwide currently use the Internet. In a few years, once the Internet has become genuinely mobile, over 4 billion users and billions more devices and objects will be connected anywhere and anytime. But before this can happen, the Internet must undergo important changes as it is facing technical limitations which hamper its potential. Not only the Information Technologies (IT) industry but also the conventional sectors will have to adapt to these changes which will require specific skills for their IT workforces.

In its 2008 action plan for the deployment of the Future Internet Protocol in Europe, the European Commission is calling for the inclusion of relevant technology knowledge in retraining curricula and in higher education computer and network engineering courses. To support this action, the European Commission, Directorate F – Information Society and Media Unit F4, has just launched a new study aimed at evaluating the current landscape (needs and offer) in the field of the Future Internet Protocols training.

The websurvey was dedicated to organisations providing training and courses in the field of Information Technologies and organisations making use of IT in its daily activity. The websurvey's results will allow to contribute to the definition of recommendations aimed at developing a European landscape for IT training.

The websurvey is now closed and the main results are published in this website, here.

The further step of the study was based on interviews with key European universities and organisations involved in IT trainings, and especially in IPv6.

Furthermore, on this website, an IPv6 training providers directory is running. You can directly register your organisation thanks to the following link.

For further details or information, please contact inno group, in charge of realizing this study by using the following form.