The Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, Luis Enrique Ortega, This Wednesday, he visited a training action of the CyL Digital program aimed specifically at people over 60 years of age at the Burgos III Day Center for Seniors, where the course ‘Essential applications for your mobile phone’ was taught.
During the visit, the vice-counselor reaffirmed the commitment of the regional government to reduce the digital divide among older people and assured that digitalization is only a success if it reaches everyone and, especially, those who need it most.
In this sense, he highlighted that CyL Digital has already trained 50,000 people over 60 years of age in Castilla y León, “a fact that reflects a sustained, useful public policy with measurable results.”
The course allows participants to learn how to manage key applications for their daily lives, from communication and health to mobility or the relationship with the Administration. “Teaching how to use the mobile phone is not only a technological issue, “It is a tool for personal autonomy and quality of life,” said the vice-counselor, for whom these trainings “respond to real needs detected in the territory.”
Ortega emphasized that the Board’s strategy is based on “free, close and practical training”adapted to groups with greater difficulties accessing technology, such as older people. “We are not talking about theoretical plans, We are talking about people who today request a medical appointment online, They use WhatsApp or consult a map thanks to this training,” he concluded.
The province of Burgos is an example of the deployment of the program. In all its centers, CyL Digital has more than 21,600 registered userswith more than 3,300 activities taught and nearly 34,000 attendees, a significant part of them in rural areas thanks to its 38 associated centers.