EUROPE FACES SHORTFALL IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS.

As the European Union prepares to implement its eEurope strategy (see article in Section I) as a springboard into the information society, it may well find that it is faced with a lack of staff with information technology (IT) qualifications, a shortfall that may result in as many as 1.5 million posts going vacant in 2002. This warning was issued on 30 May in Brussels at a Conference staged by the Finnish region of Jyvaskyla, a focal point for information technologies in Europe. Speakers warned that...