Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Digital Literacy in Adults: Discussion

Mr. Kevin Marshall:

The notion of digital empowerment is key because it gives and creates choices for people across the spectrum. On the notion of artificial intelligence, algorithms and ethics, we need to be attuned to what is going on because it is all driven by data and there are good and bad data. Digital empowerment allows citizens to think about stuff. That is the national collective conversation we continually need to have. We also need to accelerate our thinking on some of this stuff. There are some interesting historical lessons, but the only difference is that the pace of change was not what it is now. As time is not necessarily on our side, we must really focus on this matter.