Citizens’ ability to utilise the information society and security

The Government will ensure that all population and age groups possess a sufficient amount of skills needed in a rapidly developing information society. Moreover, through its own actions, the Government will promote the use of information society services and, by improving information security and privacy protection and by actively providing information about its operations and services in accordance with the Publicity Act, help to build confidence in information technology services among their users.

The Government will also aim to ensure that Finland remains a country with a high level of information security, that its information security sector is competitive and that the skills and awareness concerning information security are at a high level.

• Implementing the Information Society Programme for Education, Training and Research 2004-2006 (Ministry of Education)

• Strengthening media education in different educational sectors (Ministry of Education)

• An information campaign promoting general awareness of electronic services and making them more attractive; to be carried out in 2005 in collaboration with businesses and local authorities

• Gradual equipping of regional service points open to private citizens with customer terminals (such as schools, libraries, employment offices, public service points, Government and municipal offices) (Ministry of Education, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Labour)

• Implementing the National Information Security Strategy (Ministry of Transport and Communications)

• Public administration recommendation (JHS recommendations) on electronic identification and the methods used in electronic identification (Ministry of the Interior/JUHTA, Prime Minister's Office)

• Allocating additional resources to the Data Protection Ombudsman (guidance, consulting and making the flow of information more effective) (Ministry of Justice)

• Drawing up and implementation of an action plan to restrict media violence for children (Ministry of Education)