About the report:

Analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the development of future competences and the digitisation of Poland. The pandemic COVID-19 has changed our reality and the perception of new technologies, digitisation and the skills of the future. The report is an attempt to answer how to shape public policies to support citizens in acquiring skills of the future and to implement digitization in the world after the pandemic. In a world where change is the only certainty. The report also presents recommendations for public policies and good practices from other countries where financial instruments for citizens supporting lifelong learning have been implemented.

Key conclusions:

• As far as the socio-economic order is concerned, the ability to bring together digital and soft skills is indispensable to use technology to its greatest possible advantage and that of the wider community. This applies in particular to the digital shift of the economy.
• In the long run, the desire to remain competitive obliges Polish companies to grasp changes in the business milieu by offering more electronic devices to their workers.
• The pandemic has starkly pointed to those spheres that need urgent public action. Amongst them are infrastructure, education, support for lifelong learning, and bringing digital solution into state offices.
• It is thus vital to shift the approach to digital transformation, by placing the human element at its heart. Making humans the core element of the digital transformation should also touch upon ethical matters.
• Humans should not attempt to compete with machines, but learn to communicate with them, programme them, specifically and in respect to their core ethical principles, and develop the unique and purely human features and skills that the machine will never have.

The report is also available in the Polish version.