Reuters reports on a survey that says about 37% of people living
in the 25 European Union countries have no computer skills, with
Scandinavians being the most computer-literate and Greeks the
least. The survey results – “How skilled are Europeans in using
computers and the internet?” (PDF) – announced today by the EU
statistics agency Eurostat (see the PDF press release) paints a
generally bleak picture of Europeans’ online literacy: [...]
More than one in three (34%) of EU residents have never used a
computer, ranging from 8% in the Nordic countries Sweden,
Denmark and Iceland to 65% in Greece. It is clear that a lack of
e-skills will prevent these people from participating fully in
the information society. Some highlights from the survey
results: - 65% of Greeks, 59% of Italians and 57% of Hungarians
had no basic computer skills, compared with 10% in Denmark and
11% in Sweden - Britons and Germans also lead the EU in computer
literacy, with only 21% and 25% respectively of their citizens
lacking computer sk